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Re: mathematics & architecture

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anand-bhatt wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>. . .I went down that road once and Architecture
became just a game-devoid of reality.</blockquote>
. . .reality cannot be grasped by mathematics, logic, or philosophy, only
by personal experience. . .
<p>The entire science of mathematics, the whole domain of philosophy, the
highest physics or chemistry, could not predict or know that the union
of two gaseous hydrogen atoms with one gaseous oxygen atom would result
in a new and qualitatively superadditive substance--liquid water.
<p>. . .science is engaged in the agelong contest between truth and error
while it fights for deliverance from the bondage of abstraction, the slavery
of mathematics, and the relative blindness of mechanistic materialism.
<p>. . .the domain of mathematics is beset with qualitative limitations.
. .
<p>Arithmetic says that, if one man could shear a sheep in ten minutes,
ten men could shear it in one minute. That is sound mathematics, but it
is not true, for the ten men could not so do it; they would get in one
another's way so badly that the work would be greatly delayed.
<br>P.1477 - &sect;1 Mathematics asserts that, if one person stands for
a certain unit of intellectual and moral value, ten persons would stand
for ten times this value. But in dealing with human personality it would
be nearer the truth to say that such a personality association is a sum
equal to the square of the number of personalities concerned in the equation
rather than the simple arithmetical sum. A social group of human beings
in co-ordinated working harmony stands for a force far greater than the
simple sum of its parts.
<p>~ from a wise old book</html>
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