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	Mathematical beauty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sometimes mathematicians describe mathematics as an art form or, at a minimum, as a creative activity.
		Given the utility of mathematics in science and engineering, it is likely that any technological society will actively cultivate these aesthetics, certainly in its philosophy of science if nowhere else.
		At one stage in his life, Johannes Kepler believed that the proportions of the orbits of the then-known planets in the Solar System had been arranged by God to correspond to a concentric arrangement of the five Platonic solids, each orbit lying on the circumsphere of one polyhedron and the insphere of another.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mathematical_fetishism (736 words)

	Learn more about Mathematical beauty in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A good example of this is Euler's identity, called "the most remarkable formula in mathematics" by Feynman, for relating all the critical constants (0, 1, e, i, pi) and operations (equality, addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, and exponentation/roots) in a neat formula.
		Classic mathematical works from as late as the 19th century are often written in a very personal style and contain grandiose statements which the modern reader would classify as anything from quaint to preposterous, or in any case more appropriate to writing popularizations.
		The association of mathematics and architecture is particularly notable as the latter employs the former in its search for beauty, truth and the absolute, however elusive these qualities may be.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/ma/mathematical_beauty.html (856 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mathematical beauty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mathematics, often abbreviated maths in Commonwealth English and math in American English, is the study of abstraction.
		In mathematics, in number theory, the law of quadratic reciprocity, conjectured by Euler and Legendre and first satisfactorily proved by Gauss, connects the solvability of two related quadratic equations in modular arithmetic.
		Mathematics and architecture have always enjoyed a close association with each other, not only in the sense that the latter is informed by the former, but also in that both share the search for order and beauty, the former in nature and the latter in buildings.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mathematical-beauty (1666 words)

	Mathematical fetishism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some degree of delight in the elegance of number and symbol manipulation isprobably required to engage in any mathematics, even folkmathematics, and the usefulness of mathematics is at the core of science and engineering.
		A good example of this is Euler's identity, called "the most remarkable formula in mathematics" by Feynman, for relating all the critical constants (0, 1, e, i, pi) andoperations (equality, addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, and exponentation/roots) in a neat formula.
		Classic mathematical works from as late as the 19th century are often writtenin a very personal style and contain grandiose statements which the modern reader would classify as anything from quaint topreposterous, or in any case more appropriate to writing popularizations.
	www.therfcc.org /mathematical-fetishism-14131.html (651 words)

	Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
		My former fetishism is still apparent, however, in the number of papers I read and in an excessive affection for their look, feel, smell, and peculiarities.
		Mathematical naiveté can put such readers at a disadvantage in thinking about many issues in the news that may seem not to involve mathematics at all.
		My aim is to leave the reader with a greater appreciation of the role of mathematics in understanding social issues and with a keener skepticism of its uses, nonuses, misuses, and abuses in the daily paper.
	www.cut-the-knot.com /books/newspaper/intro.shtml (1888 words)

	fetishism and esthetic emotions
		Fetishism in my sense owes something to its use in anthropology and something to its psychoanalytic usage, but is different from both.
		In the original anthropological sense, a fetish is something that is held in awe because of its putative relation to something else for which it stands, particularly a deity or supernatural being.
		For fetishism, in my rather special sense, is not a perversion where the object of an attitude or emotion is a person: on the contrary, it would seem more than odd to value a person solely according to the universal properties they exemplify.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~sousa/fetish.html (5094 words)

	Hegel & Mathematics Ernst Kolman and Sonia Yanovskaya (1931)
		But at the same time what this amounts to in Hegel is that in mathematical propositions in general he denies correctness as such in them themselves, that he considers mathematics, as do today's formalists, only from the aspect of its inner logical consistency, and not of its objective truth, i.e.
		Thus mathematical concepts and conformities to law are considered not as absolute, unchangeable, eternal truths, but as parts of the ideological superstructure of human society tied to the latter's fate.
		The class standpoint in mathematics must not, however, be interpreted in such a way that all previous mathematics is rejected as a whole and that in its place a mathematics constructed out of completely new elements must be set up according to totally new principles.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /kolman.htm (5550 words)

	Computer Content Analysis in Sexology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The majority of pscyhoanalysts, for example, view fetishism as a regressive state: Chasseguet-Smirgel (1991) is a notable proponent of this view, but it has also been advanced by Abraham (1948) and is implicit in the equation of fetish objects with Winnicott's (1953) childhood transitional objects.
		Fetishism has sometimes also been associated with altered states, most notably in Mitchell et al's (1953) famous case, in which the fetishist entered a trance-like state when gazing on a safety-pin.
		As Chalkley and Powell (1983) showed, fetishism is an extremely varied phenomenon in terms of both the fetish object itself and the activities in which the fetishist seeks to include the object.
	www.ejhs.org /volume5/wilson.html (2203 words)

	Patent nonsense - Meta
		Religious levels of belief in w:mathematics or w:physics, including the use of appropriated terms, e.g.
		w:scientism, w:mathematical fetishism, w:sacred geometry, ought to be included.
		Those in the physics and mathematics community who object to this neutralizing process, should advocate avoidance of terms that seem to claim truth or completeness in the physics and mathematics community itself.
	meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Patent_nonsense (621 words)

	Mathematical fetishism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Society for Mathematical Psychology Promotes the advancement and communication of research in mathematical psychology, broadly defined to include work of a theoretical character that uses mathematical methods, formal logic, or computer simulation.
		Mathematical Geology Journal published by the International Association for Mathematical Geology (IAMG).
		International Association of Mathematical Physics The International Association of Mathematical Physics (IAMP) was founded in order to promote research in mathematical physics.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Mathematical_fetishism.html (317 words)

	una.fetishism
		Of course, it is still possible to theorize about a fetish even when it lacks semiotic import for us, in the same way we are able to theorize about natural (i.e., non- intentional) objects and events: by observing regular associations of the fetishizing activity with other things.
		Fetishism demands that the signifier act as promissory note: it must instantiate some expectation or promise of the eventual return of the instinctual object.
		This insight is perhaps what drove Freud to conclude that the fetish is "a sort of permanent memorial to itself" (200), like a blank headstone on an unmarked grave: it marks the existence of a loss, but of whom or what we do not know.
	noel.pd.org /topos/perforations/perf7/unabomber/una.fetishism.html (1825 words)

	Talk:Mathematical beauty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Then, the fact that correct mathematical results can be judged independently on their importance, utility and aesthetic impact needs to be stressed (and each of these criteria for judging mathematics deserves its own NPOV development).
		Suggestion: write foundations of measurement and deal with the issues now covered in mathematical fetishism which are the "dark side of mathematical beauty".
		With the philosophy of mathematics issues out of the way, or at least clearly stated, you will find it easier to state what the elegance, beauty, utility questions really are.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Mathematical_beauty (1869 words)

	Hegel & Mathematics Ernst Kolman and Sonia Yanovskaya (1931) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hegel & Mathematics Ernst Kolman and Sonia Yanovskaya (1931)
		Hegel correctly states that elementary mathematics would never have given birth to analysis out of itself, that it was driven to do so by the requirements of 'application', i.e.
		According to Hegel these dialectical moments, which are alien to the elementary mathematics of constant magnitudes, cannot be adopted by mathematics at all.
	uncouplingthecopula.freewebspace.com /kolman.htm (5550 words)

	Review of The Mathematical Manuscripts of Karl Marx Andy Blunden June 1983
		M the same time Marx vigorously opposed the mathematical fetishism, characteristic of the bourgeois money-mentality, maintaining that the mathematical methods could never over-reach the ‘boundary of the underlying, qualitative theory on which it was based.
		The actual historical development of mathematics over the last century and a half has moved on from the particular problems with which Marx was concerned in relation to calculus, but has confirmed the essence of Marx’s ideas on the subject.
		Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts must be seen as an outstanding model of dialectical practice, and read from the standpoint from which it was written — the struggle for dialectical theory as a guide to revolutionary social practice.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1881/mathematical-manuscripts/review.htm (3291 words)

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		His application of the term 'fetishism' to the economic problem of the commodity was no accident.
		At the end of the story it turns out that this cousin is the narrator's successful competitor in both literature and love, and his triumph is somehow connected to his secret knowledge of the Aleph.
		The narrator concludes the tale of his discomfiture with some speculations on the word 'Aleph' which, in its cabalistic application, signifies 'pure and unlimited divinity', while in its mathematical usage it signifies the transfinite numbers 'in which the whole is no larger than one of the parts'.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/feenberg/Girard.htm (7703 words)

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		Mathematical symbols and operations are "mere abbreviations for words" (Phillip Jourdain).
		Mathematical symbols denote concepts and mathematical formalism emerged out of the spoken/written word as words proved inadequate to express these concepts and in turn created the grounds for the development of entirely new concepts and modes of reasoning.
		From the point of view of old arguments about the validity of Hegel's Logic, these Complexity theorists have proved (empirically NOT theoretically, logically!, not mathematically, but by the empirical observation of the outcome of computation!) that from the spontatneous development of one relation (object, system) entirely NEW properties emerge.
	www.marxists.org /reference/archive/hegel/txt/julio-6.txt (818 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		an encompasing term to describe the level of achievement in science, mathematics and engineering of a group or culture.
		Some critics see these ideologies as examples of scientism, mathematical fetishism, or techno-utopianism and fear the idea of technological singularity which they support.
		The notion of appropriate technology, however, was developed in the twentieth century to describe situations where it was not desirable to use very new technologies or those that required access to some centralized infrastructure or parts or skills imported from elsewhere.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Technology (2619 words)

	Mathematical beauty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For example, proofs which depend on the elimination of many separate cases (the proof by exhaustion method), such as the currently known proofs of the four colour theorem, are definitely not elegant.
		The opposite of deep is trivial; a trivial theorem is a result that can be derived in an obvious and straightforward way from other known results.
		Given the utility of mathematics in science and engineering, it is likely that any technological society willl actively cultivate these aesthetics, certainly in its philosophy of science if nowhere else.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/mathematical_beauty (793 words)

	INTRODUCTION: COMMODITY FETISHISM by Fredy Perlman
		In Marx's later work, the theory of commodity fetishism, namely the theory of a society in which relations among people take the form of relations among things, the theory of a society in which production relations are reified, becomes Marx's "general theory of production relations of the commodity-capitalist economy".
		This essay will examine the relationship between the concept of alienation, the theory of commodity fetishism and the theory of value, and it will be shown that the three formulations are approaches to the same problem: the determination of the creative activity of people in the capitalist form of economy.
		This I call the Fetishism which attaches itself to the products of labour, so soon as they are produced as commodities, and which is therefore inseparable from the production of commodities- This Fetishism of commodities has its origin.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~rgibson/commodityfetishism.htm (10922 words)

	Jacques Maritain Center: JM 24/04
		Modern science has progressively "freed" or separated itself from philosophy (more specifically from the philosophy of nature) thanks to mathematics -- that is to say by becoming a particular type of knowledge whose data are facts drawn by our senses or instruments from the world of nature, but whose intelligibility is mathematical intelligibility.
		At first mathematics were used by the sciences of nature in the framework of sense experience only.
		But as a scientist his knowledge is limited to a mathematical (or quasi-mathematical) understanding and reconstruction of the observable and measurable aspects of nature taken in their inexhaustible detail.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/jm2404.htm (3857 words)

	Read about Mathematical beauty at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Mathematical beauty and learn about Mathematical ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		symbols is probably required to engage in any mathematics.
		Given the utility of mathematics in science and
		Solar System had been arranged by God to correspond to a concentric arrangement of the five Platonic solids, each orbit lying on the circumsphere of one polyhedron and the insphere of another.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Mathematical_fetishism (700 words)

	"SCIENCE FETISHISM" -- -- -- (... or Can Schrodinger's Cat Prove Casual Petting is Okay?) [Free Republic]
		Correlative to this fetishization of science is the epistemological prejudice that our knowledge of a being has greater certitude the lower it ranks metaphysically.
		Perhaps the most dangerous effect of science fetishism is that every aspect of human life is being made an object of laboratory analysis — a process that puts living contact with reality in jeopardy.
		The possession of metaphysical and moral truths, the knowledge of the true meaning of life, of the destiny of man, and the facts with which this truth is concerned have an incomparably greater effect and existential import for man than Science.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a384eab531a05.htm (5073 words)

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		On the one hand, these images may be exaggerations projected from Slothrop's fetishizing focalization; on the other hand, Bianca symbolizes the "child of the War," the darling of those permitted to view Goebbel's private film collection (461).
		His abandonment of her after their encounter (just as he has abandoned all the other women before) is in a metonymic sequence that underwrites the dysfunctional nature of his sexuality caused by his childhood conditioning.
		As I have been arguing, the textual set of signifiers that stage her representation is a trap, one we can now delineate as the production of a nearly exclusive patriarchal gaze and the phallocentric addresses to a male narratee.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/pmc/pmc-v2n1-duyfhuizen-a.txt (6691 words)

	Sample Chapter for Ruccio, D.F. and Amariglio, J.: Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics.
		Whether that language is professional prose or mathematics or formal logic, the modernist conceit is that language is capable of representing truths about the world in an undistorted fashion.
		The defense of formal modeling and reliance on mathematics in economics depends on the view that such forms of presentation are better able to allow truths to shine through (or at least hypotheses to be tested for their potential veracity or acceptability) than nonformal devices.
		It may also be a concern for those approaches to epistemology for which universality is less a matter of the conjunctural coincidence of a perceived sequential pattern in observations about those events and more a matter of what must logically be the "underlying cause" of that which appears to follow.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/s7609.html (12754 words)

	Futurist - SourceWatch
		If something is in the future as opposed to being simply in one's own head, of course, it is not evidence of any need for psychiatry, but, rather, a vision of things to come.
		Futurism is akin to scientism, mathematical fetishism, and belief in the mystical (e.g.
		When combined with some mathematical models and quantitative analysis, lack of imagination, groupthink, ass-covering, and over-belief in the power of backward-looking numbers to predict the future, it can be especially dangerous.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Futurist (625 words)

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