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I was studying some math this evening when I came across this wonderful quote from Poincaré:

Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.  Content to them is irrelevant: they are interested in form only.

I guess I just found this interesting as it immediately caused my mind to drift towards concepts of web design.  The part about “relations between objects” conjoured up images of the semantic web.   Also, the idea that “content…is irrelavent” is counter to the current web party lines of “Content is king!” and “Content, content, content!”.   Despite this, maybe Poincaré was onto something, as it seems that in many cases more time is spent on glitz and design before any content is ever generated.  By contrast, I live much of my life in a land which operates on the other side of the curve, engineering and science.  Where all that is ever considered is content and little, if no, time is spent on presentation and form.  I think the right approach lies somewhere in the middle.

Tags: Math, Poincare, quote, semantic web, web design

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