Re: [math-fun] More 4th grade "math"

In both math & physics, axioms & theorems have changed places many times. For example, after number theorists found cool properties of (mod p) groups and fields, mathematics found what previously were theorems to be more interesting, and asked what logical systems would satisfy these properties if they were now axioms ? Ditto with physics. Einstein flipped things around & suggested that the constant speed of light should be an axiom rather than a theorem. At 03:12 PM 2/4/2014, meekerdb wrote:

I had an argument just last year with a physicist who insisted that axioms weren't theorems.