Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:05:24 -0500
Message-ID: <57D87874.6243@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:06:44 -0700
From: The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: sci.math,rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity
Subject: Re: Math is an Invention, not a Discovery...arguement solved.
References: <57D829A8.4692@ix.netcom.com> <nr9ad3$ija$1@dont-email.me>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 64
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47
X-Trace: sv3-TxUFrbZKBQtLr5dKLz4ScCPTkb8t0dS4YTaXGKUPH/G7sv93rRd/4bkQABPq7wfSq3DZ4XGF5ALtCfN!wDWI7k3YUS4ZH8O3ymzQdskMn2+dNWQe7blX/CSmBdmnS4jeq4NRtsbK/9gFKw/qWGZS/MMyXqa6!ZIKsHj7Wfw8=
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40
X-Original-Bytes: 2348
X-Received-Bytes: 2439
X-Received-Body-CRC: 2826944012
Xref: csiph.com sci.math:345451 rec.arts.sf.written:451299 sci.physics:596860 sci.physics.relativity:392246

Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> 
> On 9/13/2016 9:30 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > I'll try to make this brief..
> >
> > Math is an Invention, not a Discovery...arguement solved.
> >
> > Take for example:
> >
> > The "Mandelbrot set"
> 
> Mandelbrot wanted to see what happens when the orbits of z=z^2+c stay
> small vs the ones that blow up into infinity. He got some of his
> colleagues to write a program to graph it, and out popped the Mandelbrot
> set. AFAICT, it was quite a beautiful discovery.
> 
> >
> >
> > It is no different
> > than giving an Artist
> > cannabis
> > and music
> > and you get the same effect
> > in the mind of the Artist
> > that you get with the
> > "Mandelbrot set".
> 
> I would like to see a stoned Artist plot the set by hand. Wouldn't it
> kill their buzz?


I didn't say "by hand", I wrote: "in the mind of the Artist"


"in the mind..."


That is where The "Mandelbrot set" exist Only, in the Mind.


Now, with 
giving an Artist
 cannabis
and music...
 you get the same effect
 'in the mind' of the Artist
 that you get with the
 "Mandelbrot set".









> 
> ;^)
> 
> >
> >
> > That is proof Math is an invention of man.
> >