Leibniz dreamed of machines that could calculate and reason. Three hundred and fifty years later, mathematics has created AI, a machine that can both calculate and reason—and thereby create new mathematics. Mathematics has become a tool for its own development. What is the role of human reasoning?
lördag 12 januari 2013
Options and GHE
The options market based on the Black-Scholes formula created a fictional financial market which has led into the present economical crisis. Similarly, the GHE based Planck's radiation formula has created a fictional climate change market adding to the crisis. In both cases a simple mathematical formula is given a universal validity way beyond its original meaning and realities of this world. In both cases the root of the trouble is an inflated belief in formalities resulting from a misconception of mathematics.
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