math vs physics

[chaitin at watson.ibm.com]

In article <slrn8enkhp.456.neelk at brick.cswv.com>,
  neelk at alum.mit.edu wrote:

>
> I tend towards Chaitin's view: "Axioms are very cool -- make some
> more up! After all, mathematics is basically arbitrary anyway!" I
> guess this shows I am really a frustrated Hilbertist at heart. :)
>

You might enjoy my latest talk.
You can find it at http://www.cs.umaine.edu/~chaitin/cmu.html
Rgds,
Greg Chaitin


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