Tuesday, May 18, 2010

statistics and the world

Here is a thoughtful article about the relation between mathematics (statistics, really) and empirical data about the world:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16FOB-WWLN-t.html

What does this imply about mathematical knowledge?

1 comment:

  1. Mathematical knowledge is very usefull in our present world.In medicine, doctors can just save or destroy lives through the use of measurements. But what happens to the other very few things that cannot be mathematical measured?

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