[FRIAM] Hywel

[Frank Wimberly]

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On Fri, Jun 22, 2018, 10:52 AM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Barry,
>
> Isn't it an Abductive process?
>
> Surely not inductive.
>
> Nick
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> Clark University
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Barry
> MacKichan
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 10:09 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Hywel
>
> I second Jon’s thoughts about Hywel’s contribution to our small group
> reading a gauge theory book.
> I came to appreciate Hywel’s point of view. In mathematics, we prove
> theorems starting with axioms or hypotheses. In spite the surpassing
> usefulness of mathematics in physics, it really boils down to trying to
> match a mathematical model to reality, and this always is an inductive
> process, not deductive. It’s not surprising that an experimental physicist
> will be more critical of some models, no matter how beautiful they may be
> mathematically.
>
> We will miss him and his thundering “Wrong!”
>
> --Barry
>
>
> On 22 Jun 2018, at 1:56, Jon Zingale wrote:
>
> > Thank you for passing this sad news on to friam.
> > I will miss Hywel very much and often enjoyed his contributions to our
> > gauge field theory book group over the last year. His sense of humor
> > often brought a chuckle and smile to my face. Hywel's unique
> > perspective on matters of physics and its tenuous relation to the
> > platonic world of numbers provided much food for my thought. After
> > all, 'Mathematics is ok, but it's better to know what you are doing'
> > :) ============================================================
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