OT Re: Math-embarrassment results in CS [was: Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed?]
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Jul 23 02:57:58 EDT 2015
Rustom Mody wrote:
> Ive known good ones) most practicing-mathematicians proceed on the assumption
> that they *discover* math and not that they *invent* it.
For something purely abstract like mathematics, I don't
see how there's any distinction between "discovering" and
"inventing". They're two words for the same thing.
I don't know what kind of -ist that makes me...
--
Greg
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