purplecat: Hand Drawn picture of a Toy Cat (mathematics)
purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote 2010-11-01 10:09 pm (UTC)

More generally it's one of the problems faced by the intuitionist mathematician - if all mathematics is a human construct/invention/logic game, then how come it keeps turning out to be so incredibly useful in unlooked for real world applications?

I think the amazing thing about prime numbers is that they are so fundamental and basic and yet so strangely and unpredictably behaved.

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