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Special Issue 64 of SHAPE on the limitations of Mathematics

The Team


Jim Schofield - Author / Editor

Physicist, Philosopher, Marxist, Multimedia Expert, Mathematician, Author, Sculptor.

Dr. Peter Mothersole -
Advisor / Editor

Senior Lecturer in Computing, Physicist, Photographer, Constructivist, Software Developer, Philosopher.

Mick Schofield -
Art Director / Editor

Writer, Researcher, Photographer, Artist, Designer
 
 


Special Issue 64
The Limits of Mathematics


Introduction: The Limits of Mathematics

The Infinite as a Hegelian Philosophical
Category and Its Implication for Modern Theoretical Natural Science by Abdul Malek

Notes on The Infinite

Time in Space: of Graphs and Plurality

Why Mathematics Significantly
Distorts both Physics & Formal Logic

Computer Simulation and Reality

The Effects of Wrong Premises and of Mathematics upon the Way We Think

A Mirror of Reality at the Quantum Level




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Editorial

Welcome to Special Issue 64.

This edition deals with the various limitations of Mathematics from a variety of different scientific and philosophic angles, and features a fantastic guest paper by Abdul Malek, a Theoretical Physicist and Dialectician from Montreal, Canada.

It has taken me many decades to realise quite how limited Mathematics really is. I have the advantage of having been a gifted mathematician long before I switched to Physics. I made that significant change because Mathematics is a purely descriptive abstract discipline, of a very special type, and I wanted to really understand things rather than merely describe them in abstract form.

Unfortunately, as we shall see, Physics has become little more than an extension of Idealist Mathematics. Physics was converted into a Pluralist Science of Stabilities: and one driven idealistically by Purely Formal Laws.

No wonder it is in an untranscendable terminal impass as a Science! Indeed, we can legitimately go a great deal further, and insist that it no longer investigates Reality-as-is, but instead can only deliver a distorted formal reflection of that World: it is an investigation of Ideality - the infinite World of Pure Forms alone: the Abstract Realm of Mathematics.

In short, Physics can only be saved via a wholesale rethinking of Mathematics and how we use it.





Jim Schofield
APRIL 2019