Pi in the sky : counting, thinking, and being
Pi in the sky : counting, thinking, and being
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天上的圆周率:计数、思考和存在
DOI:
10.2307/3620225
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发表时间:
1994
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通讯作者:
J. Barrow
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Part 1 From mystery to history: a mystery within an enigma illusions of certainty the secret society non-euclideanism logics - to be or not to be the Rashomon effect the analogy that never breaks down? tinkling symbols thinking about thinking. Part 2 The counter culture: by the pricking of my thumbs the bare bones of history creation or evolution the ordinals versus the cardinals counting without counting fingers and toes baser methods counting with base 2 the neo-2 system of counting counting in fives what's so special about sixty? the spread of the decimal system the dance of the seven veils ritual geometry the place-value system and the invention of zero a final accounting. Part 3 With form but void: numerology the very opposite Hilbert's scheme Kurt Godel more surprises thinking by numbers Bourbachique mathematique arithmetic in chaos science friction mathematicians off form. Part 4 The mothers of inventionism: mind from matter shadowlands trap-door functions mathematical creation Marxist mathematics complexity and simplicity maths as psychology pre-established mental harmony? self-discovery. Part 5 Intuitionism: the immaculate construction: mathematicians from outer space Ramanujan intuitionism and three-valued logic a very peculiar practice a closer look at Brouwer what is "intuition"? the tragedy of Cantor and Kronecker Cantor and infinity the comedy of Hilbert and Brouwer the four-colour conjecture transhuman mathematics new-age mathematics paradigms computability, compressibility, and utility. Part 6 Platonic heavens above and within: the growth of abstraction footsteps through Plato's footnotes the platonic world of mathematics far away and long ago the presence of the past the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics difficulties with platonic relationships seance or science? revel without a cause a computer ontological argument a speculative anthropic interpretation of mathematics maths and mysticism supernatural numbers?.