Tollorin wrote:
Orwell wrote:
Tollorin wrote:
Clearly mathematics are liberals.
I don't think I understand the joke.
I mean that chaos mathematicians being rather against the "free market" (In is currnet form at least.), and worrying of global warming; which is rather liberal...
I don't know where you get those ideas. Nonlinear dynamics (or "chaos theory" if you want to sell a newspaper story) tells us that it is hard to predict the economy, but it does not give us any prescription for how we should organize it. Likewise, it tells us that it is hard to predict the weather, but nothing about long-term climate change.
It is quite likely that a large number of people working in nonlinear dynamics are liberals, simply because highly educated individuals and especially academics tend to be politically liberal, but that doesn't make mathematics as a field liberal, unless you agree with Steven Colbert that reality has a liberal bias.
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