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Thus in refuting the determinist philosophy behind the mathematics of Newton and the imperial logic of Hilbert, he opened the way to a new mathematics, the mathematics of information.8 From this demarche emerged a new industry of computers and communications currently led by Google and informed by a new mathematics of creativity and surprise.
George Gilder • Life After Google
The angles of a real triangle really do not necessarily add up to 180°: the true total depends on the gravitational field within the triangle.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
Georg Cantor, whose studies of infinite sets
Stephen Budiansky • Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there are aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains.’ But that cannot be so. For if the ‘capacity’ in question is mere computational speed and amount of memory, then we can understand the aspects in question with the help of computers