The other day I was talking to this guy whose name is not relevant but he told me something interested. This was that mathematicians after a moment of reasoning they started to deduce.. and that in this "path" nothing interfere with their perception not even their emotions..:S But is this true? mmmm is kind of easy to think that they do not have emotions :p jeje but in the end they do... so? how does this affect their perceptions of things?
thnx!
becks

Mathematical proof is one of those things which is black and white. Either a proof correctly follows from a set of assumptions, or it does not. Every mathematician, provided she is able to understand the proof, will agree whether it is correct or not.

Since there is no room for opinion, emotion doesn't come into the process.

On the other hand, mathematicians are human, just like everybody else. In producing proofs in the first place (as opposed to simply checking if a proof is correct), they use a huge amount of creative thought, which may well be coloured by emotional factors. Often, mathematicians also rely on a sense of beauty in the mathematics to help guide them along the right paths to useful results.

Emotion can certainly colour the perception of the meaning of the result, but mathematical results should always be the same.

Some mathematcians are religious, some not. Same results, different meaning.

kula