Math-News
Math-Update Project will be exhibit at ICM 2010
On Saturday August 21st in Hall 2 at 3 PM, the website math-update.net. will be finally presented to the public at ICM 2010. This blog&search-webpage is a project which pretends to open an immense window to the mathematical world, to update the communication and understanding of this science worldwide.
Math-Moments
“Mathematics is a game
played according to certain simple rules
with meaningless marks on paper”
The Abstract Method
“ .. the barriere to mathematical communication is more philosophical than technical … “
“ .. the abstract method in mathematics, as it is sometimes called, is what results when one takes an attitude to mathematical objects … This attitude can be encapsulated in the following slogan:
a mathematical object is what it does “
“ .. Historical suspicion of the abstract method
has left its traces in the words used to describe
the new numbers that arose each time
the number system was enlarged:
Negative; Irrational; Imaginary or Complex ...”
“Mathematics: A very Short Introduction”