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existential1 wrote

I've been reading a lot of mathematical philosophy. Fun stuff. Can't for the life of me figure out why universities make it harder to get journals legally than pirates do to get them illegally. Even if you want to do right, they make it awfully hard.

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Hibiscus_Syrup OP wrote

Cool. Like what? What's good?

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existential1 wrote

Well I can't break the ToS by posting any of the content, since they're all books or articles. But here's the wiki on the subject.

The two articles I enjoyed most this morning are "Conceptual and Computational Mathematics" by Nicolas Fillion where he talks about how the dichotomy of pure vs applied or conceptual vs computational mathematics is a false one that is propelled by separate parties for their own interests but the most excellent forms of either in recent years are when both are used creatively to solve a problem that neither could solve alone.

The other one is "How Can Abstract Objects of Mathematics Be Known?" by Ladislav Kvasz. This article is an attempt by the author to counter the notion that mathematical objects are not accessible through human capacities and specifically to prove the statement "the objects studied by mathematics are not abstract but ideal".

I'm putting myself through a lot of math stuff because i really want to be good at constructing more advanced mathematical concepts. Happened to read something about mathematical philosophy while reading a book on optimization theory and then I went down a rabbit hole. I'm still in it actually.

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Hibiscus_Syrup OP wrote

Cool. It's a shame I'll likely not have time to learn these things also.

I didn't know there was something in the ToS about books/articles?

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existential1 wrote

Me neither until someone mentioned it recently. I guess we're not supposed to post ar-ar-matey content. Makes sense.

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