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Re: More Mathematica CAN'T do than CAN???

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• Subject: [mg113375] Re: More Mathematica CAN'T do than CAN???
• From: James Stein <mathgroup at stein.org>
• Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:33:06 -0400 (EDT)

Turing Machines are implemented in Mathematica, so Mathematica can, in
principle, "do" any computable problem. Perhaps your learned friend is
merely suggesting, in a learned roundabout way, that fewer than half of all
mathematics problems are decidable?

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Nicholas Kormanik <nkormanik at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> A few evenings ago I was speaking with a "learned mathematician" at
> the local university here.  In the course of our wide-ranging talk, he
> stated that Mathematica is only capable of doing less than half the
> problems in mathematics today.
>
> I was floored at his assertion.  I have only scratched the surface of
> all that Mathematica can do.
>
> There's tons more that it CAN'T do???
>
> Your comments are welcome.
>
> Nicholas Kormanik
>
>