1. Sep 24, 2009 #1

   Loren Booda

   

   Does any branch of mathematics concern exclusively the dissimilarity of patterns?

    

   Loren Booda, Sep 24, 2009
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3. Sep 24, 2009 #2

   CRGreathouse

   

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   Re: Anti-math?
   
   I'm not entirely sure what that means. Ramsey Theory studies the inevitability of patterns, but that's different...

    

   CRGreathouse, Sep 24, 2009
4. Sep 24, 2009 #3

   Loren Booda

   

   Re: Anti-math?
   
   Considering that math concerns the similarity of patterns, I guess that dissimilarity is a pattern unto itself.

    

   Loren Booda, Sep 24, 2009
5. Sep 25, 2009 #4

   Gib Z

   

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   Re: Anti-math?
   
   

   Indeed, this is one of the reasons I believe Mathematics is so applicable to everything. If something has some pattern, we use maths to study it. If it doesn't have a pattern, we call it random and do statistical analysis on that. However something turns out, we have maths for it!

    

   Gib Z, Sep 25, 2009

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