[FRIAM] Open Letter, draft #2

[John Kennison]

Hi Frank,


I didn't realize it was supposed to be a joke --it seemed like a relevant example. I'm not an algebraic geometer but:


 . . . there is a historical survey in https://www.ime.usp.br/~pleite/pub/artigos/abhyankar/abhyankar.pdf

Historical Ramblings in Algebraic Geometry and Related Algebra<https://www.ime.usp.br/~pleite/pub/artigos/abhyankar/abhyankar.pdf>
www.ime.usp.br
Historical Ramblings in Algebraic Geometry and Related Algebra Author(s): Shreeram S. Abhyankar Source: The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 83, No. 6 (Jun. - Jul ...




<https://www.ime.usp.br/~pleite/pub/artigos/abhyankar/abhyankar.pdf>If you read that you can tell if you like Ahbyankar's style. He wrote a more thorough survey in 295 pages called "Algebraic Geometry for Scientists and Engineers'' (including computer scientists.


--John



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Sorry, John.  It was a weak attempt to be humorous.

Also, I mistyped.  I meant "algebraic geometry" when I was asking for a book recommendation.

Frank

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On Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 12:56 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com<mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>> wrote:

John writes:



“Is there something that animals, or more particularly humans, can do which we can prove cannot be duplicated by a sequential machine?”



A sequential computer program could simply be a loop that sampled random numbers and indexed into the address space of the computer program itself (not its memory).   One could make a specialized computer using a FPGA that even had an instruction to do that random dispatching.   To counter the arguments of Penrose, one could do the same using quantum states.



https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781402078941



There are all kinds of physical processes that are simulated on classical supercomputers, of course.



Marcus

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