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“In dealing with the physicists and mathematicians who are working with the molecular biologists, one of the mental blocks I began to find on the part of the mathematicians were their tendency to still think of these Platonic geometries as individual integrities, as not having interrelationship. It took me quite some time to get them to give me enough time to let me show them the transformation of one of these into the other. They, as physicists and mathematicians, were very used to transformation but transformations had no conceptual imagery at all. They were simply done by symbols. Just as you can make a transformation from two sides of an equation if you choose to take the positive and negative from one side to another and you will have to know which way it goes, but you can transform the equation without knowing what is in the equation. It does not have to stand for any particular given material called empty sets so you are used to mathematical transformability and empty sets. The mathematicians were so used to that, that they had not expected to see or actually witness an affair where there are the complementaries.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #8, p. 281. 12 Jul’62
