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From: Jesse F. Hughes on 12 May 2010 12:04 stevendaryl3016(a)yahoo.com (Daryl McCullough) writes: > Jesse F. Hughes says... > >>It is *amazing* how many stories you tell that involve someone else >>complimenting and admiring you! > > Hey, there are people who admire me, too. But they prefer to remain > anonymous. I can understand that. -- Jesse F. Hughes "And a journal can beg me for the right to publish it [...] because I'd rather see it in "People" magazine [...]" --James Harris on his simple proof of Fermat's last theorem
From: Frederick Williams on 12 May 2010 12:57 Frederick Williams wrote: > > "Jesse F. Hughes" wrote: > > > > Charlie-Boo <shymathguy(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > Ask Gerald Sax who kept correcting him during his Mathematical Logic > > > [...] > > > > > > > It is *amazing* how many stories you tell that involve someone else > > complimenting and admiring you! You know what? This makes me wish I > > was more like you! > > > > You must be the best person in all Cambridge! > > Even I know that Sacks is spelt Sacks and I've never met him. > > (I think his friends call him Ger..) I'm sure I typed "I think his friends call him Gerry". -- I can't go on, I'll go on.
From: Jesse F. Hughes on 12 May 2010 13:08 Frederick Williams <frederick.williams2(a)tesco.net> writes: > Frederick Williams wrote: >> >> "Jesse F. Hughes" wrote: >> > >> > Charlie-Boo <shymathguy(a)gmail.com> writes: >> >> > > >> > > Ask Gerald Sax who kept correcting him during his Mathematical Logic >> > > [...] >> > > >> > >> > It is *amazing* how many stories you tell that involve someone else >> > complimenting and admiring you! You know what? This makes me wish I >> > was more like you! >> > >> > You must be the best person in all Cambridge! >> >> Even I know that Sacks is spelt Sacks and I've never met him. >> >> (I think his friends call him Ger..) > > I'm sure I typed "I think his friends call him Gerry". Well, up to regexp matching, anyway. -- Jesse F. Hughes "And hey, if you're moping and miserable because mathematics tests you, then maybe, if you think you're a mathematician, you might want to try a different field." -- Another James S. Harris self-diagnosis.
From: Daryl McCullough on 12 May 2010 16:54 In article <87r5lhjecr.fsf(a)phiwumbda.org>, Jesse F. Hughes says... > >stevendaryl3016(a)yahoo.com (Daryl McCullough) writes: > >> Jesse F. Hughes says... >> >>>It is *amazing* how many stories you tell that involve someone else >>>complimenting and admiring you! >> >> Hey, there are people who admire me, too. But they prefer to remain >> anonymous. > >I can understand that. Thanks, I needed that. -- Daryl McCullough Ithaca, NY
From: herbzet on 13 May 2010 01:33
Charlie-Boo wrote: > Long ago I > pointed out that the problem is that equality is more general than > that. Any two things are equal at some level of abstraction and > above, and not equal at all lower levels. Hey -- great minds think alike! See the corollary to herbzet's axiom at, e.g., http://groups.google.com/group/sci.logic/msg/bcd3720316b10c27? : "> herbzet's axiom: > Things are different only insofar as they are different, and no farther. > Corollary: > At a sufficient level of abstraction, any two things are the same thing." These are VERY IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES: Things are as alike (or unalike!) /precisely as far as is necessary/ to support the argument of any usenet sore-head at any particular moment of an online argument. *** Interestingly, at the above link Jones is discussing /the very problem of this thread/ ... the addition of units! ">> A problem of addition can be summarised thus >> 1) To be countable, elements must be alike. >> 2) Elements that are indistinguishable cannot be counted." etc., etc.! Plus �a change, eh? (herbzet's axiom in French) -- hz |