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感覺 -- 芦笛 - (1052 Byte) 2010-5-06 周四, 下午6:42 (136 reads) |
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作者：唐好色 在 驴鸣镇 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
I think you set too high a standard for Marx. Weierstrass was a professional mathematician. He wasn't the greatest of his generation (Riemann was), but he was definitely among the top ten. If he had lived today, he would probably have won a Fields medal.
Archimedes was one of the all time great mathematicians and his contribution to physics rivals that of Newton and Einstein.
Marx on the other hand was an amateur. Nobody should compare him with the above two giants in mathematics. There is no comparison. By merely comparing them, you give Marx too much credit.
Even in relative terms, I think I am better at math than Marx. However I will be terribly embarrassed and hide my face if someone compares me to Serre or Grothendieck.
On the other hand, philosophers love to tell others what to do. Since mathematics and theoretical physics hold such intellectual prestige, they love to say stupid things about them. The professionals just ignore them, usually.
If I am stupid enough to write a book on String Theory, I would probably say a lot of stupid things too. This fact stops me from writing such a book, but it probably won't deter some philosophers.
Bertrand Russel was once a big Hegel fan till he read Hegel's ideas on mathematics.
Here is what Richard Feynman said:
"My son is taking a course in philosophy, and last night we were looking at something by Spinoza and there was the most childish reasoning! There were all these attributes, and Substances, and all this meaningless chewing around, and we started to laugh. Now how could we do that? Here's this great Dutch philosopher, and we're laughing at him. It's because there's no excuse for it! In the same period there was Newton, there was Harvey studying the circulation of the blood, there were people with methods of analysis by which progress was being made! You can take every one of Spinoza's propositions, and take the contrary propositions, and look at the world and you can't tell which is right."
Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
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