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RE: [klein] introduction

Welcome

This list has been somewhat empty = ok no messages for quite a while. Is
there any life in the old girl?

Your first impression does not connect with my remembrance of the
introduction. Could you expand?

I do not get any notion of control of new thoughts. An attempt to revive
old ones though.

regards

Bill
Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:12 pm

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Newbie here, just finished a first reading of klein's introduction to his book. By 'weight', my first impression is, klein's work takes thought down to thee... 		picard
chofborg1
Offline Send Email 		Jul 25, 2005
6:02 am

Welcome This list has been somewhat empty = ok no messages for quite a while. Is there any life in the old girl? Your first impression does not connect with my...
Bill Oates
oatesguyca
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12:10 pm

Hi Bill Klein's introduction seems to say that ancient greek mathematics fore-shadowed the birth of modern mathematics. Sixteenth century input shifted the...
picard
chofborg1
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8:24 pm

Len Well there are similarities and differences beteen ancient and modern mathematics. Klein seems to place the shift in the sixteenth century. But what is...
oatesguyca
Offline Send Email 		Jul 26, 2005
1:03 pm

... -To the scientific. ... -Fundamentally there is no difference, the exception being in those minds which tend now toward thinking of determination as cause....
picard
chofborg1
Offline Send Email 		Jul 30, 2005
4:43 am

Len Sorry but I am not following you. Perhaps you could expand on some this or perhaps I am just obtuse. ... Sorry still not understanding - in fact this only...
Bill Oates
oatesguyca
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2:01 pm

Bill My apologies, my thoughts, my obtuse language. Scientific, as a word and wrt social perspective, was meant to indicate that all of us have (in some way)...
picard
chofborg1
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11:25 pm

To say the mind is a universal is misleading because a universal does not exist irrespective of it. If a mind deems there to be objects then they exist....
picard
chofborg1
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12:29 am

Mr. Picard, I will tell you some points that Mr. Klein made in various places. When reading the words of any thinker ( and there are not so many thinkers as we...
worreller
Offline Send Email 		Aug 4, 2005
9:51 pm

Worreller Yes agreed; to 'have read' one must think the author's thoughts. Klein, in the introduction i think, wants us to appreciate that wrt our world and...
picard
chofborg1
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11:20 pm

Worreller Perhaps you could answer a question for me wrt something klein says near the end of his introduction, a look ahead so to speak. Klein says, "...we...
picard
chofborg1
Offline Send Email 		Aug 6, 2005
2:46 am

... Yes. J ps. Did you notice the other comments below in my pervious post? I am reluctant to point them out only because I do not have much time....
worreller
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9:46 pm

Len Perhaps we have more of a communication. That we have all been made physicists is something that seems to accord with Klein's comment that mathematical...
Bill Oates
oatesguyca
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3:06 pm

Hi, I am a upper division undergraduate student of Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach, with a strong interest in the history of...
dianebouvier
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9:12 am
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