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   From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 21/02/2026 10:46 pm, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >>   
   >> 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,   
      
   He invented the Dirac function, and bra-ket notation. He was notably   
   more deft with math than most of his contemporaries.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra%E2%80%93ket_notation   
      
   He reconciled several ostensibly different quantum theories by pointing   
   out that they were notational variations of the same basic idea   
      
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   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
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