You will never develop a complete and consistent mathematical theory.

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Anonymous Wed May 2 04:42:56 2012 No.4638502 [Reply] [Original]

You will never develop a complete and consistent mathematical theory.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 04:43:03 2012 No.4638503 Why not?

>>	Filosofer scientist linguist Wed May 2 04:45:11 2012 No.4638507 >>4638503 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 04:46:20 2012 No.4638508 >>4638503 incompleteness theorem. It's always great to watch the eager undergrads' faces as they learn that their whole world of reasoning has been turned upside down.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 04:51:51 2012 No.4638514 >>4638508 More like a collective yawn as people don't need to prove everything and only need the parts that they find useful.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 2 05:06:43 2012 No.4638529 >>4638514 some people must impose a parochial sense of order on top of world events, further compiled on top of a preexistent OCD

Anonymous Wed May 2 05:35:03 2012 No.4638549

Remember that guy that spent 7 years in near isolation to prove fermat's last theorem, which was his childhood dream?
Remember that asian guy that suicided when he couldnt prove his conjecture about eliptical/modular functions (which implied fermat's last theorem, and both were proven later)?

If you don't have that kind of drive, you won't complete a mathematical theory/form a solid conjecture.

>>	FinalState Wed May 2 05:45:15 2012 No.4638571 This is just common sense to anyone with a brain. It shows how stupid the average mathematician/scientist is. Translating the argument to mathematics is a feat though.

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