Does it? I don't know. I never took math beyond Pre-Calc, and I couldn't even perform that at gunpoint right now. However, I am an ongoing student of human behavior: political science, psychology, criminology, which are part of the "humanities" that are an endangered species right now. The subjects in this blog are essentially about human behavior - what they do, why they do it, how it affects the human condition.

I'm interested in these matters not to promote my charities or solicit financial support for my pet projects, but to better understand what I believe to be crimes: YKW was a massive crime, invading Iraq was a crime, torturing detainees is a crime, TARP is a crime, the complicit media is criminal and on and on. I'm interested in justice.

I think we all share at least that goal: seeing justice.

No poster here owns this comment section, nor does anyone have the right to decide who should be banned or when a subject hijacks the thread. And it's comical that ondolette claims that his freedom of speech is impinged upon or that he doesn't feel "safe" here. This, from a guy who has posted 8 million words in Salon, at least, and has his own personal Salon blogette, and his own groupies here. It's laughable.

Unless you can show me how math will help me solve these crimes, I just don't think it's relevant.

Unless you can show me how math will help me solve these crimes, I just don't think it's relevant.

-- Retzilian

I can't show you because I don't know anywhere near enough about the connection to make the case. But math has long been used as a tool for solving crime, so I wouldn't be so flippant about it as you are being.

If it's any comfort to you, I picked up early on that your spelling was probably due to being a foreign national. I didn't think it worth mentioning, but you really should start using the correct expression 'dynamical systems', not 'dynamic systems'.

I was not being imprecise. The subject matter is taught as plane geometry. I am more than aware that there are other kinds, I do most of what I do with geometry in one or the other of those other kinds.

As for your experience with fractals and Mandelbrot, it's shallow. Just accept that and move on. There is a lot more that can be done with them, you didn't do it, that isn't a crime, but it makes you less than expert on what their application range is. I don't know what you mean by early on, but I'd venture the theorems I was referring to were already proven and in the literature. You didn't know them.

As for my references to Afghanistan and complex systems, it is what I said it was: The world has too many people in it for cultures and societies to not interact, and interaction of nonlinear systems becomes more chaotic and complex as the degree of coupling increases. If you have studied the subject, and not just played around making fractal graphics, you know that is the case, and you know that there are theorems that back that up, and that is what I was saying. If you don't know the subject sufficiently well to know that, then you don't really know the subject, those are very basic theorems, many proven in the 1960's and 70's. So don't pass judgment on it.

No, being successful and making money on mathematics doesn't preclude your being able to speak about it. But you offered it as a measure of the worth of your mathematics, which it surely is not, and my statement was that it is a businessman, not a mathematician, who would evaluate a piece of mathematics on those terms.

I work very hard to understand Afghanistan, you obviously think it is quite simple to understand. I disagree. So be it.

But stop trying to prove that mathematics is irrelevant to understanding social interaction because it isn't. You just don't know which mathematics can apply.

As first-person a posteriori knowledge of principals involved with the crimes cited is in perfect "sync" with the American Creed and the prophetic, utopian, whig writings of America's Prophet, Founder and Author, Thomas Jefferson; and full recognition of the political economic historio-religious threat the American Revolution yet poses - having "ignited a volcano under the thrones of Europe" - the "trivia" of mathematical modeling and corroboration can be left to posterity.

Traitors to the Constitution and People must first be tried and fried.

Annuit Coeptis

Ondelette wrote, "Ask the patent office. They will tell you it's something you discover."

So, you think the US patent office decides philosophical issues in mathematics? Well, that is the biggest hoot you ever wrote here at UT by far. Do you really mean to say that? Jesus on a stick that is uninformed.

As to the rest of your whining about this and that; go for it. But this: "The reason I said there was no invasion of Afghanistan is because that's what the facts say. Invasions require troops, those troops invade. It didn't happen" is a fraud. I quoted you from credible sources otherwise; you are, in fact, wrong.

Live with it.

I can answer question 3 without identifying anyone. The answer is 1.

They are used a lot in science nowadays. Turbulence calculations in aerodynamics, and precise measuring of shorelines are just two uses. And I got this from a PBS program on TV about two years ago. Criminently!

I'm with you Retzillian, I want to talk about retiring my arch nemesis, Dickless Cheney. I hope they can pin something on his bratty little snot nosed daughter too.

Just who pissed in everybody's Wheaties® this morning, anyway? (@sig)

@LondonLad

I can answer question 3 without identifying anyone. The answer is 1.

You didn't use the singular in your original post. Nor did you in any subsequent posts on the matter. Would you like me to go and dragged them out for all to see?

Now why am I still waiting for the answers to the other two questions?

I'm also waiting for you to retract the statement byou made about me ever asking for names which I of course did not.

So, I still want two more answers and one retraction.