Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 14:11:26 01/22/03
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On January 22, 2003 at 14:51:50, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >It's a general tic of mathematicians to believe that they could reduce all >problems to mathematics which is wrong. Until proven otherwise! :) >It's another tic of mathematicians to >believe that if they are really good in maths that then they could "solve" >general questions of society or human life - which is wrong again. Errr, what are you talking about? >Dann did NOT say "many things", no, he said something different and I agree >fully with Jim on that one. Either Dann made a joke or he is one of the >mathematicians I meantioned above. I fear the latter is the case. Jim is >completely right in his opposition against the reduction of complex problems to >the tossing of a coin. You simply didn't get this because your probability >doesn't fit either. Ahh chess is not exactly Bernoulli, since it can be a draw. But you could change the rules, ie. white gets 20% more time, but a draw is counted a win for black. Then all outcomes would be 1/0 and it has a Bernoulli distribution. The probablility parameter (p) is unknown of course. >Just to keep it serious: Dann said that ALL things in science could be dealt >with tossing a coin. -tststs- > >:) Well I would probably have to disagree with that. :) -S. > >Rolf Tueschen
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