@Damkiller25 said in #20:
> Even if you had all required information, would you be able to understand logically why it is true? For majority a defintion for derivative is hard to understand. Massive amount of any mathematian's work is already incompressible for 99.9% population.because you need decades of training in order to understand (primary school, highschool, college and even past college)
That depends on what you want to "understand". If you want to thoroughly understand why a fundamental scientific theory is true, then I will say this is impossible. But if you want the ability to predict the state of a system, given the required information, then it can be done.
Will all due respect, I think you underestimated mankind's ability to learn by a huge amount. For those people that doesn't understand the idea of a derivative, it's because they never spend the time to learn calculus, not because they doesn't have the ability do so.
If we really can't understand the mathematical theories in an acceptable period of time, it's our own fault, not math's. With the advancing technology, it's not hard to imagine future humans having such a long life span that the time to get a thorough understanding of math is small by comparison.
> Even if you had all required information, would you be able to understand logically why it is true? For majority a defintion for derivative is hard to understand. Massive amount of any mathematian's work is already incompressible for 99.9% population.because you need decades of training in order to understand (primary school, highschool, college and even past college)
That depends on what you want to "understand". If you want to thoroughly understand why a fundamental scientific theory is true, then I will say this is impossible. But if you want the ability to predict the state of a system, given the required information, then it can be done.
Will all due respect, I think you underestimated mankind's ability to learn by a huge amount. For those people that doesn't understand the idea of a derivative, it's because they never spend the time to learn calculus, not because they doesn't have the ability do so.
If we really can't understand the mathematical theories in an acceptable period of time, it's our own fault, not math's. With the advancing technology, it's not hard to imagine future humans having such a long life span that the time to get a thorough understanding of math is small by comparison.
22# huangyudong i think the same
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