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Anonymous Sun Feb 1 13:18:33 2015 No.7043268 [Reply] [Original]

Is it possible to advance human knowledge and technology without utilizing math?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 13:21:49 2015 No.7043274 dmt

>>	Progress Thread Sun Feb 1 13:23:05 2015 No.7043275 >>7043268 Is it possible that OP is a faggot? Yes. Yes it is.

Anonymous Sun Feb 1 13:23:07 2015 No.7043276

Depends on what you mean by math.
For writing down technological insights, you'll likely want to quantify -some- observable. When you draw pictures of which stones are best for making a fire, the math involved is next to nothing. If you want to describe how time length of burning relates to the color of the stones (or whatever), you introduce functionality and so on. As soon as you develope a formal language for this, you get a notion of Kolmogoroph complexity, conciously or not, and some people might want to optimize it - I'd argue that then they do math.
If by knowledge you mean stuff like the theory of book critique, then I guess there isn't too much math.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 13:23:59 2015 No.7043277 Yes

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 13:24:56 2015 No.7043279 math is a model you will need a model

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 13:25:31 2015 No.7043282 Thousands of years ago rubbing two sticks together required no math. Important and useful but not "100%" vital.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 13:26:37 2015 No.7043284 >>7043282 OP asked if it is possible, not if it was.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 13:27:11 2015 No.7043286 >>7043284 Same rules apply today.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 13:28:14 2015 No.7043289 >>7043286 What if all trivial facts (those that require no maths) have been discovered?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 13:37:19 2015 No.7043316 Why are people so afraid of math? I'm not even that good at it and I enjoy it and recognize its importance to modelling phenomenon in almost any STEM field.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 13:40:21 2015 No.7043324 >>7043268 Do you want to be a lab tech? Someone has to wash the glassware and you can be that person! They might even put your name second to last on the paper!

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 13:48:36 2015 No.7043342 You cant even buy your groceries without using math

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 13:52:16 2015 No.7043352 >>7043289 can't have the same type of technology then

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 00:44:02 2015 No.7044393 >>7043268 What is slavery?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 01:26:34 2015 No.7044460 >>7043289 i put tape on pencil. nobel pls

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