Comments on: The Only Flame War You’ll Ever Need http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/03/20/back-from-vacation-2/ Dedicated to the mathematical arts. Fri, 29 May 2015 09:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: michael http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/03/20/back-from-vacation-2/#comment-522 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:27:32 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2006/03/19/back-from-vacation/#comment-522 Never having heard of an Oracle is the shocking part. How could NP have even been explained to this person?

]]> By: PeterMcB http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/03/20/back-from-vacation-2/#comment-519 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:19:47 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2006/03/19/back-from-vacation/#comment-519 “More and more people have computation as their model for mathematics . . .”

So Brouwer may have won his argument by default!

]]> By: sigfpe http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/03/20/back-from-vacation-2/#comment-518 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:15:48 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2006/03/19/back-from-vacation/#comment-518 There’s an important point there. More and more people have computation as their model for mathematics and so they have difficulty with the notion of an existence proof. Confusing “there exists…” with “here is a construction of…” is not at all unusual.

]]> By: phils http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/03/20/back-from-vacation-2/#comment-517 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:09:06 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2006/03/19/back-from-vacation/#comment-517 That one is rather harmless, still. When I started reading science blogs and forums a few years ago, I remember being very intimidated by the behemoth Bogdanov-related threads in which dozens of people with rather spectacular differences in proficiency would take part. Insults, accusations of “intellectual bankruptcy” and “dubious credentials”, phony proofs and counterexamples, all you had to do is ask.

]]> By: michael http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/03/20/back-from-vacation-2/#comment-516 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:31:03 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2006/03/19/back-from-vacation/#comment-516 That actually made my day.

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