¶ Experiential Mathematics
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Experiential Mathematics:
“I am an operational, experiential mathematician; that is, I do not accept any concept as obvious, ergo, not requiring experiential evidence. I am astonished that physics in particular, though utterly committed to experiential evidence and reproducible physical proofs, has accepted and employed mathematical tools which have no experiential validation, such as the very word ‘abstraction,’ such as one-dimensional lines, two-dimensional planes, and solid states, when physics has discovered there are no solids, no continuums. I am, however, as you are, not so much interested in what is inadequate and wrong in the work of others as I am interested in what it is we may and do learn through exclusively experiential means.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Ltr. to John Clopton, San Francisco, CA, 15 Oct’76
