Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Ridiculous

On today's Law & Order Criminal Intent, I learned that elementary age kids without any training in advanced mathematics or supervision by a knowledgeable mathematician nevertheless have a reasonable chance of solving the Riemann Hypothesis just because they are geniuses.

A couple of weeks ago, I learned that in theoretical physics "theories" are formulated without any appeal to mathematics, and then mathematics is used to prove those theories.

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