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Bill Sloman wrote:
> On 21/02/2026 5:52 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> > On 02/20/2026 10:31 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:
> >> On 21/02/2026 3:47 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> >>> On 02/19/2026 11:45 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
> >>>> On 20/02/2026 10:48 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> >>>>> On 02/19/2026 11:19 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:
> >>>>>> On 20/02/2026 2:44 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 02/19/2026 01:45 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On 19/02/2026 6:13 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On 02/18/2026 11:06 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> On 02/17/2026 08:35 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> On 18/02/2026 5:37 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>> On 02/17/2026 09:47 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Ross Finlayson wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 02/17/2026 03:49 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
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> > I.e., mathematics _owes_ physics more and better mathematics
> > of continuity and infinity.
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> Mathematics doesn't owe physics anything. Physics exploits tools
> developed by mathematicians, which makes physicists customers for the
> work of some mathematicians.
That is quite arguable.
Much of mathematics wouldn't exist
without (what was once) new input from physics.
Many a luminary, Von Neumann for example,
has said that mathematics will go stale
without regular fresh input from the natural sciences,
bringing new needs.
> A mathematical physicist like Paul Dirac is an interesting hybrid, but
> his biography is titled "The strangest man".
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac
Why discredit him by calling him 'a mathematical physicist'?
He was a theoretical physicist,
Jan
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was a British
-theoretical physicist- who is considered to be one of the founders of
quantum mechanics. (first line of your ref., [emp. jjl])
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