Science And Math Was: Python's Lisp heritage

[Gonçalo Rodrigues]

On 22 Apr 2002 16:02:45 -0400, aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:

>In article <b8p8cu8f7u9lkbmpcrksjfcqp67nkoq3om at 4ax.com>,
>Gonçalo Rodrigues  <op73418 at mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
>>
>>Ahh, OK. Then I agree completely -- Mathematics *is* larger than its
>>would-be applications to the natural sciences. I think it was P. Erdos
>>who remarked once that all natural science is conceivably finite - e.g.
>>there would be a time when there would be nothing more to learn about
>>the universe - but mathematics is literally infinite.
>
>I'm not so sure about the latter assertion, and I'm *definitely* not
>certain about the assertion that natural science is finite.

The first assertion by Erdos is indeed problematic. The second is not.

Best,
Gonçalo Rodrigues