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2 June '08, version 1.08.


Notice: I am no longer actively maintaining this web page, though I still believe in the ideas expressed on it. Anyone who wishes to be my friend is urged to come to one of my other web pages, http://www.myspace.com/nonclassical. That one is being maintained and updated, very intensively.


MATH   is   TRUTH;
WAR   is based on   LIES.

Thus, mathematicians have a special duty to oppose war.

International Mathematicians for Peace


"Why international?"  Well, it's true that the USA is the world's biggest economy, the biggest military, and the biggest supplier of weapons. But it is small compared to the combined effect of the next few nations after it. Thus, the international community is capable of influencing the American juggernaut. And, of course, war is an international matter.

"But mathematics is above all of that."  Mathematicians often see their work as the discovery of a perfect and eternal truth that is above all the ambiguities and emotions of human interaction. They take pride in its cold, clear, crystalline reasoning. But who is mathematics for? We mathematicians are human beings with families and communities; we betray them if we do not concern ourselves with their future. I can imagine mathematicians, scientists, and engineers busying themselves in the engine room of the R. M. S. Titanic, thoroughly absorbed in tinkering with the engine, enjoying the intellectual challenge of figuring out how to make the engine run faster, completely oblivious to shouts that the boat is about to hit an iceberg.

"But we haven't been trained for politics."  That attitude is shared by nonmathematicians too -- "Leave politics to the politicians; it's not my job; I'm not trained for that and I'm busy with other work." Well, look what an atrocious job the politicians have done when the rest of us haven't gotten involved. Campaigning for peace is not our area of expertise, but it's time we started training ourselves. And, at any rate, no special expertise is needed to understand that war is a truly terrible thing, and that we should not participate in war without an absolutely clear, indisputable, and compelling reason. Silence is complicity. The house is on fire, and we need more people awake to put out the fire, but most of the people in the house are still asleep -- apparently we need to shout "fire! fire!" longer and louder.

"Why mathematicians in particular?"  Really, people from every walk of life need to participate -- carpenters for peace, postal workers for peace, and so on. And ultimately we all need to work together. But we may also have special perspectives to offer. And, at any rate, by banding together in our workplaces we form a community that otherwise cannot find its way. This web page, written by a mathematician, attempts to recruit mathematicians.

"Haven't there been some 'just wars,' like World War II?" If a war was just on one side, then it was unjust on the other side. World War II was largely due to the German people's failure to question Hitler's fairly thin lies (sickeningly similar to the American acquiesence to Bush's lies). And the USA isn't blameless in World War II -- for instance, the hellbombing of Japanese cities was justified only by lies.

Just Foreign Policy Iraqi Death Estimator "What kinds of lies?"  Some governments may believe they have good reasons for wars, but they do not trust their own people to agree, and so they lie. And the news media, increasingly owned by a few wealthy people with vested interests in the war machine, report the news with subtle bias: They frame it in language that forces the desired conclusions, and they omit news items that cannot be spun in the desired direction. And in countries where truth is less protected, the news media lie outright. How easily we all fall into the consensus trance! Unlike mathematicians, most people do not test everything they hear for fallacies and omissions -- and even mathematicians apply this rigor only to their mathematics.
    Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. -- Hermann Goering, Reichsmarschall of Nazi Germany

    War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.... A few profit, and the many pay. -- Smedley D. Butler, USMC Major General, two-time congressional medal of honor recipient
(And war is not the only topic for lies. The general public may not understand, but scientists and engineers know that there is nothing subjective or inconclusive about global warming. They should be enraged about the lies about science.)

"So you're advocating that we support some particular political party?"  No, not really. It's true that one political party has dirtied its hands most conspicuously in recent years; but every party, when it has been in power, has lied its way into some war. The real problems are the way that many politicians gain power by pointing at an enemy, and the way that war profiteers assist the finances of many politicians. Somehow we have to stop that.

"What should we mathematicians do?"  I don't know, I'm just starting to figure it out and get this organized. That's why this web page has a version number at the top. Contact me to agree or to disagree with this document, or to suggest additions or alterations to it.

Voting is not enough. But just making our voices heard is a major part of what we need to do. Here are a few ideas: Post a copy of this document on your office door. Email it to colleagues who you think may be sympathetic. At the next peace vigil or rally in your town, carry the URL of this web page on a sign. Become better informed about politics -- look on the internet or in the library. Join some other organizations.

Shouldn't we be as serious about making peace as some people are about making war?

Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone who wants to help make the world a more peaceful place (and doesn't think bombs are the way to do it).



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Jul 5 2008 11:31 AM

Hello Dear New Friend,
Greetings from Brazil!
Thanks for add!
Its my pleasure to be your friend!
Cool Site!I Loved!Congratulations!
Have a Fantastic weekend!
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Jul 5 2008 8:16 AM

Enjoy!


Beauty of Math!

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn't it?

And look at this symmetry:

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=123456789 87654321

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Jul 4 2008 6:46 PM

"Enlightenment for a wave in the ocean is the moment the wave realises that it is water."
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Jul 4 2008 11:49 AM

Happy 4th....
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Jun 28 2008 8:20 AM

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha


Sending Love...have a great weekend...Barbara

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Jun 22 2008 12:23 PM

Sending you love...Barbara
To educate the heart, one must be willing to go out of himself, and to come in to loving contact with others. -James Freeman Clarke-
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Jun 14 2008 12:50 PM

Love to all and to you friend...Barbara
03_ Samantabhandra..
Barbara





Jun 7 2008 6:26 PM

Ajhan Chah
Do not try to become anything.
Do not make yourself into anything.
Do not be a meditator.
Do not become enlightened.
When you sit, let it be.
What you walk, let it be.
Grasp at nothing.
Resist nothing.


If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate
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Jun 7 2008 1:06 AM

Nature
Aristotle, like many of his contemporaries, was preoccupied with the notion of change. He observed change in first, the behavior of living organisms, and second, purposeful human action in that they both move towards achieving ends. Living organisms, through reproduction and growth, always exhibit a striving towards predetermined functions such as an acorn (potentiality) developing into a mature oak tree (actuality). An organism inherently achieves these ends in order to fulfill its function. For Aristotle, organisms neither have "purposes" in the traditional sense nor attain ends by choice but instead have built-in goal-directed behavior, which he called entelechy. This innate quality of attaining ends is the organism fulfilling its function all for the sake of surviving in its particular environment. Plato, the teacher of Aristotle, also criticized other philosophers for denying or failing to discern final ends.
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May 25 2008 7:03 PM

Hope you are having a beautiful weekend filled with love...Hugs Always, Barbara

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May 22 2008 6:40 AM

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May 10 2008 10:36 PM

Have a great weekend:)
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