Making math more Lego-like | Harvard Gazette

[Owen Densmore]

Interesting new research making Math More Lego-like: 3-D picture-language has far-reaching potential, including in physics

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http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/03/making-math-more-lego-like/

​Anyone familiar with this? Does it work? :)

   -- Owen​

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[Russell Standish-2]

I'm sure it works. I used to "prove" quite a lot of theorems with some
simple 2D diagrams that required pages of dense formulae to prove
symbolically. But interestingly, I found that mathematicians not
brought up on visual mathematical thinking could not grasp what I was
talking about, so ended up having to translate the proofs into symbols
anyway.

Incidently, I tend to code the same way :).

I imagine this technqiue will only be accepted if it provides results
not achievable symbolically. Which may well be the case. Feynmann's
doodles would be another example of this.

Cheers

On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 08:40:12PM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Interesting new research making Math More Lego-like: 3-D picture-language
> has far-reaching potential, including in physics
> ​    ​
> http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/03/making-math-more-lego-like/
>
> ​Anyone familiar with this? Does it work? :)
>
>    -- Owen​

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[Barry MacKichan]

I’m sure it works. Art Jaffe is a respected mathematical physicist and once president of the American Math Society. I downloaded the preprint but haven’t had time to look at it yet. It seems aimed at quantum stuff.

--Barry

On 3 Mar 2017, at 20:40, Owen Densmore wrote:

Interesting new research making Math More Lego-like: 3-D picture-language has far-reaching potential, including in physics

​    ​

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/03/making-math-more-lego-like/

​Anyone familiar with this? Does it work? :)

   -- Owen​

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[Pamela McCorduck]

Oh my goodness, Arthur Jaffe once delegated me to go to an art gallery in Santa Fe to see if the piece he loved really was as lovable as he thought. I stared at it for a half hour or so, and reported back that indeed it was. So he bought it long distance. Long time ago.

On Mar 4, 2017, at 11:23 AM, Barry MacKichan <[hidden email]> wrote:

I’m sure it works. Art Jaffe is a respected mathematical physicist and once president of the American Math Society. I downloaded the preprint but haven’t had time to look at it yet. It seems aimed at quantum stuff.

--Barry

On 3 Mar 2017, at 20:40, Owen Densmore wrote:

Interesting new research making Math More Lego-like: 3-D picture-language has far-reaching potential, including in physics

​    ​

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/03/making-math-more-lego-like/

​Anyone familiar with this? Does it work? :)

   -- Owen​

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