Mathematics versus Physics

The object of pure Physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. — J. J. Sylvester.

In my opinion, for example, Boole’s Laws of (Human) Thought. 

This entry was written by Nalin Pithwa, posted on November 27, 2018 at 10:36 pm, filed under applications of maths, careers in mathematics, mathematicians, miscellaneous, motivational stuff. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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