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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
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Subject: Operational Calculus of the Mind
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 In the history of mathematical sciences, is it not so that
 ungrounded "heuristics" are
 often developed which provide results of immediate practical consequence
 , only to be "justified"  much later by interpretation and theoretical
 foundations ?  Isn't the history of the so called "operational calculus"
 such a case ? Heaviside's heuristic was much later justified by 
 Schwarz' theory of distributions .  In the argument between 
 strong-ai-ists and mathematicians, much vitriol is spent on the
 "truth war" between them, when in fact a more productive sym(bol)biosis
 would be preferrable.
 


