Leonhard Euler – Uncommon Descent

Intelligent Design Mathematics Quantum mechanics

Has a 243 year-old puzzle been solved via a “quantum solution”?

At Quanta: In a paper posted online and submitted to Physical Review Letters, a group of quantum physicists in India and Poland demonstrates that it is possible to arrange 36 officers in a way that fulfills Euler’s criteria — so long as the officers can have a quantum mixture of ranks and regiments.

Intelligent Design Mathematics

Gregory Chaitin (of Chaitin’s number fame) muses on what makes the great mathematicians stand out

Chaitin offers some thoughts on Georg Cantor and Srinivasa Ramanujan as well, both of whom thought that their math discoveries were divinely inspired.

Intelligent Design Mathematics theism

Will President Dutarte have to resign? Mathematician Euler offered an equation taken as proof of God

Recently, Philippines president Rodrigo Dutarte threatened to resign if anyone could prove that God exists. It turns out that the great mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) offered a proof of the existence of God. Today, Euler is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. His interests covered almost all aspects of mathematics, from geometry Read More…

Fred Hickson With your scatter gun approach, I find it hard to sort the wheat from the chaff (see, I can mix... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus FH, it becomes increasingly clear that you deploy hyperskepticism to defend your orthodoxy. From 1948 to 1953 on then through... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus FH, natural selection is a dynamic-stochastic process and is of significantly random character. That is, one is shifting odds relative... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Fred Hickson You do you, Kairosfocus. It's pointless trying to discuss biology with you. Your agenda does not seem to have anything... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus F/N: https://uncommondescent.com/atheism/platos-socrates-on-navigating-the-ship-of-state/ a magazine issue https://philosophynow.org/issues/101 ship of fools https://philosophynow.org/issues/101/The_Ship_of_Fools reforms article https://philosophynow.org/issues/101/Democracy_Is_Sick – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Fred Hickson Genetic drift is one of the basic mechanisms of evolution. In each generation, some individuals may, just by chance, leave... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Fred Hickson Logically derived from confirmable evidence, evolution is understood to be the result of an unguided, unplanned process of random variation... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus FH, as we both know, a fishing reel instantiates FSCO/I, similarly the process flow network of an oil refinery, similarly... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Fred Hickson Sure genetic drift happens, Querius. Population geneticist Joe Felsenstein uses the analogy of Brownian motion, an effect that is unavoidable... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Fred Hickson Oh and I read Jerry Coyne's 2011 blog post, ET. The thrust of it is to do with choice of... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Querius Fred Hickson @178, LOL. You gotta be kidding! Not to mention the other links you were provided, see ET's comment... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Fred Hickson *chuckles* Googling got me this: https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/112/2/287/2415796 Something for Upright Biped to ponder. Adaptive semiotics! – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
polistra Odd vs even in a visual sense is important to bees. Bilateral flowers like snapdragons are literal honeytraps. A snapdragon... – At Mind Matters News: Claim: Honeybees,...
Fred Hickson Thus, he has the double challenge of arguing against the accepted paradigm of random processes together with mistaken ideas about... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
polistra WOW! But the 250 MYA, known to be alive, is an even bigger WOW. – 830 mya organisms found in Australia...
Fred Hickson Ten speed bicycles now? What about your hypothesis? Can you make it any less vague? – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ram ET: Men have to be held responsible for unwanted pregnancies. Your version of God has to be held responsible for... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
Querius ET @174, 175, Yeah, exactly. The problem is that he's not in agreement with the current thinking in Darwinian evolution.... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
solemn existence Although not too germaine to the discussion, I just came across this and didn't see any UD coverage on it... – Researchers: Eukaryotes got started from a...
Belfast To slightly misquote Fasteddious, (from an earlier post of his) “ Saying “the emergence of eukaryotes DID NOT happen in... – Researchers: Eukaryotes got started from a...
ET OK, so at least Fred admits that there isn't any model for evolution by means of blind and mindless processes.... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...