Science And Math Was: Python's Lisp heritage

[Aahz]

In article <b8p8cu8f7u9lkbmpcrksjfcqp67nkoq3om at 4ax.com>,
Gonçalo Rodrigues  <op73418 at mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
>
>Ahh, OK. Then I agree completely -- Mathematics *is* larger than its
>would-be applications to the natural sciences. I think it was P. Erdos
>who remarked once that all natural science is conceivably finite - e.g.
>there would be a time when there would be nothing more to learn about
>the universe - but mathematics is literally infinite.

I'm not so sure about the latter assertion, and I'm *definitely* not
certain about the assertion that natural science is finite.
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