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Claudia Westermann
media at ezaic.de
Sat Mar 9 13:09:27 CET 2002
>
>in mathematics the irrational designates some thing that cannot be
>described by
>a ratio of 2 natural numbers. for example, a form of a quadratic equation like
>x^2 = 2 cannot exist; rather, it is expressed in the formula x = 2/x.
>
>x is thus a prerequisite to knowing x. in that case, isn't what the
>pythagorean
>school confronted in the aforementioned equation already the self-referential
>paradox +? a prohibition of the irrational number is in fact equal to the
>prohibition
>of self-referentiality. however, in the context of post-cartesian, modern
>mathematics,
>the same equation as described in x = sqrt2; and, by treating sqrt2 as a
>number,
>the paradox is dissolved.
x^2 = 1
I like to be divided
and to divide to a whole
our selves refer to us
you are variable expression -> changing location
I am variable expression
>nevertheless, the whole movement of this expansion (invention) of numbers was
>driven by a series of crises--paradox and solution--and ultimately reached
>cantor,
>who regarded even the infinite as a number and then ended up
>reencountering the
>paradox of self-referentiality. but it does not end there. george
>spencer-brown
>resolved the paradox of self-referentiality by formulating it into another
>quadratic
>equation, which francisco varela used to theorize self-organizing
>networks. these
>examples from the current scene, however, neither diminish nor render obsolete
>the importance of gödel's proof. mathematics is
>constantly being invented by shifts of concept.
1001 spirals form the world
>the book
this ?
http://www.archrecord.com/INTRVIEW/mau/mau.asp
bonjour
claudia - there is always 01 very good reason
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