Friday, September 09, 2005

I read this...

'It is important to note that mathematical ideas model OUR CONCEPTION of the real world, rather than the real world iteself. '
This perspective can help with ones abilities in maths by providing the thinking space between phenomenon and description of those phenomenon using mathematics. I'm not talking about philosophy here, but about psychological process.
Try making the above statement concrete by applying it a real wold example - go from observation, to guessed pattern to linear description.

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