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"Sam Wormley" |
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10 Mar 2006 10:37:15 PM |
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From Counting to Writing |
From Counting to Writing
Counting and numbers played a crucial role in the development
of writing.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060311/mathtrek.asp
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| User: "OsherD" |
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| Title: Re: From Counting to Writing |
11 Mar 2006 02:03:38 AM |
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From Osher Doctorow
Sam Wormley typed:
Counting and numbers played a crucial role in the >development
of writing.
I've maintained in my threads over the last year or two that counting
and numbers are closer to Reality than algebra, which is also the case
for Probability-Statistics, Engineering Feedback/Control, Physics
Experiment, Geometry, Topology, Differential Equations,
Real/Complex/Functional/Nonsmooth Analysis, Logic. These fields, which
are essentially non-algebraic despite the fact that algebra
periodically summarizes the discoveries of the other fields in
equations or inequalities or morphisms, are the really Creative Genius
fields even though the Algebraic Ingenious Imitators typically try to
take the credit.
The article which you cited seems to agree with the priority of
counting/numbers in the rise of Civilization.
Osher Doctorow
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| User: "Zodness" |
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| Title: Re: From Counting to Writing |
11 Mar 2006 10:53:00 PM |
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"OsherD" <> wrote in message
news:1142064218.320908.45910@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
From Osher Doctorow
Sam Wormley typed:
Counting and numbers played a crucial role in the >development
of writing.
I've maintained in my threads over the last year or two that counting
and numbers are closer to Reality than algebra, which is also the case
for Probability-Statistics, Engineering Feedback/Control, Physics
Experiment, Geometry, Topology, Differential Equations,
Real/Complex/Functional/Nonsmooth Analysis, Logic. These fields, which
are essentially non-algebraic
moron, god will punish you for wasting your time and life lying on the
internet
such obvious *****.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: From Counting to Writing |
10 Mar 2006 11:10:58 PM |
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Did you hear about the Aggie who learned to count to 21, then was
arrested?
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: From Counting to Writing |
11 Mar 2006 08:49:22 AM |
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Sam Wormley wrote:
From Counting to Writing
Counting and numbers played a crucial role in the development
of writing.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060311/mathtrek.asp
'The world's first number system' by Georges Ifrah. Harvill.
universal history of numbers vol 1.
(it's stuffed full, ancient to modern, ephemeral,prevailing &
otherwise)
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