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- From: haddadi@sipi.usc.edu (Navid Haddadi)
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- Subject: Re: Integration Was: Re: Student attitudes
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 04:51:10 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <1992Dec18.182743.15553@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
- >> Integration is a purely formal exercise in which a formula is
- >> transformed into another formula, using particularly odd rules.
- >
- >Actually, this sounds like a nonmathematician's definition of
- >"mathematics"! :-)
-
- Actually, how does a mathematician define math? If we take math to be
- an exercise in logic, then rules of logic that we use to make trivial
- an otherwise nontrivial matter (i.e. give a proof down to AC or ZL) are
- only a set of transformations operating on some language.
- Navid
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