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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: algebraic numbers

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  • Subject: [mg106319] Re: [mg106281] Re: [mg106238] Re: [mg106220] Re: [mg106192] Re: algebraic numbers
  • From: János Löbb <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 04:15:56 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <200912290620.BAA02732@smc.vnet.net> <hhpl0g$9l1$1@smc.vnet.net> <201001050647.BAA24123@smc.vnet.net> <E44EA2F2-1274-43E8-93DE-DC5BD31884A5@mimuw.edu.pl> <op.u52ai6jwtgfoz2@bobbys-imac.local> <504E0A05-61DB-4A43-9637-68216076623C@mimuw.edu.pl> <op.u529salwtgfoz2@bobbys-imac.local> <771DE886-36BB-4108-A83C-808109BAA8C3@mimuw.edu.pl> <op.u53a91u1tgfoz2@bobbys-imac.local> <201001061057.FAA14928@smc.vnet.net> <op.u54k94ojtgfoz2@bobbys-imac.local> <86095ED9-9201-4CCE-B9F8-2091CB57BD33@mimuw.edu.pl> <op.u54x9awhtgfoz2@bobbys-imac.local> <201001070730.CAA23848@smc.vnet.net>

>  Why can't a computer, in principle of
> course, perfectly simulate the activity of the human brian that we 
> call
> "doing mathematics"?

Let me cite here an "alien from Mars"  - Arthur K=F6stler : )

"The discoverer perceives relational patterns of functional analogies 
where nobody saw them before, as a poet perceives the image of a camel 
in a drifting cloud"

or

"The manner in which some of the most important individual discoveries 
were arrived at, remind one more of a sleepwalker's performance than 
an electronic brain's"

J=E1nos=


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