tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post3471439202422573212..comments2024-03-27T19:47:13.475-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: When were Negative Numbers Invented?Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-14645469924355680682022-04-02T10:18:03.996-07:002022-04-02T10:18:03.996-07:00Yes, negative numbers occur naturally. The questio...Yes, negative numbers occur naturally. The question is whether the ancients ever considered negative numbers just like positive numbers.Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-59085838655656442042022-04-02T06:39:19.583-07:002022-04-02T06:39:19.583-07:00What about ... "losing three apples and owing...What about ... "losing three apples and owing it to onesself to find them"? Jon Burdickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02548776058585897717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-68956744755387997592022-03-27T13:46:23.018-07:002022-03-27T13:46:23.018-07:00I was not expecting anyone from China or India to ...I was not expecting anyone from China or India to respond.Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-26139208423375177792022-03-25T15:22:29.838-07:002022-03-25T15:22:29.838-07:00Dear Roger,
No Indian-born ``Indic'' (rea...Dear Roger,<br /><br />No Indian-born ``Indic'' (read ``Brahmin'') ``Researcher'' is ever going to respond to you.<br /><br />But Indian-borns in your country (they were born mostly in the ``Brahmin'' castes, and mostly are casteists) are going to ``respond'' to you in their own echo-chamber. Soon enough. *I* can guarantee you that. (They will respond to ``Which British?'' ``Abrahamics'' Etc. Even while making tons of money in your own country. My country-borns, I mean. They are like that.)<br /><br />I will read this post a bit more carefully should I develop a sufficient interest in maths (and not ``math'') in near future.<br /><br />Best,<br />--Ajit<br />PS: Hope you really run this comment. TIA.<br /> Ajit R. Jadhavhttps://ajitjadhav.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-40410474329417763022022-03-24T00:41:40.636-07:002022-03-24T00:41:40.636-07:00To what I remember of my mathematics history from ...To what I remember of my mathematics history from my professors, negative numbers were primarily an offshoot necessity of cartesian graphing, which required negative numbers in order to create four quadrants around an origin at zero. At the development of Cartesian graphing, it is my understanding that the idea of numbers fundamentally changed from being primarily considered as a quantity at all, and became considered more as elements of coordinates designating lengths or distances from other points and zero in a cartesian plane. <br /><br /> When negative numbers became graphically spatial as opposed to numerically quantitative, they became useful.<br /><br /> The problem with all cartesian graphs and manipulations is that there are several very immutable required geometrical assumptions baked into the very graph itself that are often ignored and are rarely considered when folks muck about with them, which in turn leads to much of the paradoxical bullshit generated by non-euclidian geometries parading about as explanations. This is largely the result of mathematicians who pretend to forget what geometric definitions are logically dependent upon whenever it suits them and decide to selectively ignore basic axioms because they are inbred card cheats.<br /><br /> Bullshitting at math is really not much different than cheating at cards. The folks that do it think they are vastly clever because they got away with something they know they aren't supposed to be doing, and hope to always be long gone by the time someone cleans up their sloppy mess enough to find out. Many famous 'mathematicians' were also con artists, it seems to go with the territory. <br /><br /><br /><br />“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”<br />― Richard P. Feynman CFTnoreply@blogger.com