Tom_McCabe2 comments on Joy in Discovery - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 March 2008 01:19AM

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Comment author: Tom_McCabe2 21 March 2008 11:47:09PM 0 points [-]

At least we'll always have new mathematics to discover. To quote Erdos: "Mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or biology. But humanity certainly won't ever be able to find out everything in mathematics, because the subject is infinite. Numbers themselves are infinite."