forgetfulness

[Guille]

I agree we could forget about them. But how? I believe there are these two main possibilities:
1. We state that imaginary numbers cannot be mathematically interactive with real numbers.
OR
2. We state that there are no such thing as imaginary numbers (or that they are false conjectures).

There is a good thing about each and a bad thing about each:
The first allows us to keep imaginary numbers which solve many problems in mathematics, specially that of sqrt/-n, but it requiers a proof that imaginary numbers and real numbers are closed sets which cannot interact in equations (for if they could, complex numbers would be formed).
The second helps us because we don't need to prove that imaginary numbers can't interact with real ones, but it has the problem that we must prove that imaginary numbers are false, and give a substitude solution for sqrt/-n.

Which do you choose and why?

[AntonioLao]

Which do you choose and why?

The truth about imaginary and complex numbers is that they cannot describe the quantization of mass, electric charge, and spacetime. All these can be quantized using Hadamard matrices where zero elements do not appear in the matrices and furthermore the matrices are symmetrical as well as singular. They are singular because their determinants are zero.

[Robert]

However, this post is to discuss the absent-minded professor syndrome. Why do people in deep concentration tend to forget other practical things in life?

This almost seems to be the opposite of Attention Deficit Disorder. With ADD, brain SPECT imaging typically shows decreased activity in the basal ganglia and dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex during a concentration task. Perhaps, the the absent-minded professor syndrome is an increased level of activity in these brain regions.

More information on brain SPECT imaging can be found here.

[theunify]

I don't forget that type of things. I might forget my own birthday, but not a girlfriend's. I do live a lot into philosophy and physics, but also do many other things, I live, and that is more than what most money-devoted people will ever do.

Not me; I totally live for money.

[dleviwing]

Hi Antonio;
Sorry I missed this one.
A bit of insight to the syndrome can be found in one of the physicist in our group. He always wore the same suit coat, tie, shirt, slacks, socks, and loafers to work every day. One day Carl asked him if he laundered the combo every so often. His reply was “no, I have 10 sets just like this one”. His explanation was that he did not want to be distracted by thinking of making a decision of what to ware and his loafers were due to the fact he did not want to think about how to tie the knot. I think the syndrome is nothing more than they do not want to be bothered with trivial emotional stuff. I find that quite understandable.
It also explains Einstein’s hairdo.

[Guille]

Not me; I totally live for money.

Well, there is a saying in Spain that living like you makes you be 'the richest of the cementary'. If you wish to be that, fine, but that's absent of sense, cause you are paying with your life (your time, your energy... doing) what you are gaining with money (having).

[Guille]

Hi Antonio;
Sorry I missed this one.
A bit of insight to the syndrome can be found in one of the physicist in our group. He always wore the same suit coat, tie, shirt, slacks, socks, and loafers to work every day. One day Carl asked him if he laundered the combo every so often. His reply was “no, I have 10 sets just like this one”. His explanation was that he did not want to be distracted by thinking of making a decision of what to ware and his loafers were due to the fact he did not want to think about how to tie the knot. I think the syndrome is nothing more than they do not want to be bothered with trivial emotional stuff. I find that quite understandable.
It also explains Einstein’s hairdo.

Quite a character, that physicist. Einstein too. But I don't really accept your term 'trivial emotional stuff'. You are implying two things which are wrong: that all emotional stuff is trivial stuff, and that all trivial stuff is emotional stuff. There is triviality in non-emotion, like for example Russell's 300 pages long proof of the existence of 1. There is emotion without triviality, like for example Mahler's compositions, Visconti's films, Byron's poems... etz.

[dleviwing]

Hi Guille;
Actually Bertram was a rather strange mathematician to the point of being emotionally unstable. That’s one of the pitfalls of being a genius Guille, so keep good control of your emotions.

I’m not wrong, just emotionally misunderstood.

[theunify]

Well, there is a saying in Spain that living like you makes you be 'the richest of the cementary'. If you wish to be that, fine, but that's absent of sense, cause you are paying with your life (your time, your energy... doing) what you are gaining with money (having).

You are young my friend, perhaps you are a bit old enough to understand that one liners like "I totally live for money" are meant to be funny, humorous, hilarious, stupendous, ridiculous, hedgemonious, and likewise. I take good fortune and turn it into good living for others.