Lama Tin :kverified: on Nostr: Mathematics, with its formality and rigor, seems like a fundamentally ordered system, ...
Mathematics, with its formality and rigor, seems like a fundamentally ordered system, and it is. However, when sufficiently studied, one learns of just how many gaping holes there are in that ordered system.
For example, you may know that if one throws a dart at the real number line, the probability that the dart lands on a rational number is zero. The overwhelming majority of numbers are irrational, to such an extent that their density in the reals dwarfs that of the rationals.
It may surprise you to know that not only are most numbers irrationals... most numbers are also transcendental, meaning that they transcend algebra (they aren't the root of any polynomial). And more than that, most numbers are actually *indescribable*.
The system of mathematics is at the heart of everything we know about the universe, yet it is anchored firmly in the hum of chaos.
Rest your consciousness in the indescribable, and there find the truth.
For example, you may know that if one throws a dart at the real number line, the probability that the dart lands on a rational number is zero. The overwhelming majority of numbers are irrational, to such an extent that their density in the reals dwarfs that of the rationals.
It may surprise you to know that not only are most numbers irrationals... most numbers are also transcendental, meaning that they transcend algebra (they aren't the root of any polynomial). And more than that, most numbers are actually *indescribable*.
The system of mathematics is at the heart of everything we know about the universe, yet it is anchored firmly in the hum of chaos.
Rest your consciousness in the indescribable, and there find the truth.