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- From: system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Bishop against God
- Message-ID: <qg7qXB2w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:42:01 EST
- References: <1993Jan20.155509.5841@ulrik.uio.no>
- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- solan@smaug.uio.no (Svein Olav G. Nyberg) writes:
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- > I found the following beautiful quote:
- >
- > "Mathematics belong to man, not to God. We are not
- > interested in the proiperties of the positive
- > integers that have no describtive meaning for man.
- > When a man proves a positive integer to exist, he
- > should show how to find it. If God has mathematics
- > of his own that needs to be done, let him do it
- > himself."
-
- Beautiful to some, but self-contradictory to me:
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- "Mathematics belong to man, not to God."
-
- followed by
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- "If God has mathematics of His own..."
-
- Well, which is it?
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
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