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From: Link on 8 Apr 2010 23:02 On Apr 8, 2:03 pm, mstem...(a)walkabout.empros.com (Michael Stemper) wrote: > In article <slrnhrsffa.csq....(a)gatekeeper.vic.com>, d...(a)gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney) writes: > >Transfer Principle <lwal...(a)lausd.net> wrote: > >>I like the name "discrete mathematicians" -- it certainly > >>sounds much better than "cranks." Some "cranks" who might be > >>described as "discrete mathematicians" include HdB and RE, > >>both of whom have criticized Infinity. Those posters who > >>believe in a smallest real number, such as AP and MR, may be > >>included with the "discrete mathematicians" as well. > > >Not wanting to open any cans of ever-shrinking worms here or anything .... but > >... what would the name of that smallest real number be? > > "Mu" > > -- > Michael F. Stemper > #include <Standard_Disclaimer> > Twenty-four hours in a day; twenty-four beers in a case. Coincidence? \ "Mu" \ o\satov \ ht\markov\t[p] j\a v\[a] rip the ribbon mmm
From: Brian M. Scott on 9 Apr 2010 01:10 On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:56:16 GMT, Christopher Adams <mhacdebhandia(a)yahoo.invalid> wrote in <news:A2uvn.18208$pv.1357(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au> in rec.arts.sf.written,sci.math: > Brian M. Scott wrote: >> Christopher Adams wrote: >>> Butch Malahide wrote: >>>> 2. While generatingfunctionology >>> What are you, German? >> 'Generatingfunctionology' is the title of a first-rate book >> on generating functions and combinatorics by Herbert S. >> Wilf, who so far as I know is American; at any rate he was >> an undergraduate at MIT and did his graduate work at >> Columbia. > Given that I've received this response about a half-dozen > times, in various forms, will someone at least admit to > understanding why I made the joke? <http://kamelopedia.mormo.org/index.php/Hottentotten> Brian
From: Brian M. Scott on 9 Apr 2010 01:29 On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:40:18 -0400, David DeLaney <dbd(a)gatekeeper.vic.com> wrote in <news:slrnhrsffa.csq.dbd(a)gatekeeper.vic.com> in rec.arts.sf.written,sci.math: > Transfer Principle <lwalke3(a)lausd.net> wrote: >>I like the name "discrete mathematicians" -- it certainly >>sounds much better than "cranks." Some "cranks" who might be >>described as "discrete mathematicians" include HdB and RE, >>both of whom have criticized Infinity. Those posters who >>believe in a smallest real number, such as AP and MR, may be >>included with the "discrete mathematicians" as well. > Not wanting to open any cans of ever-shrinking worms here > or anything ... but ... what would the name of that > smallest real number be? You find it, you get to name it. A friend of mine in grad school constructed an interesting topological space and named it 'George'. Brian
From: Butch Malahide on 9 Apr 2010 01:58 On Apr 9, 12:29 am, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...(a)csuohio.edu> wrote: > > You find it, you get to name it. A friend of mine in grad > school constructed an interesting topological space and > named it 'George'. Once there was a mathematician with the initials FG who, when he needed to define two functions, called them 'f' and 'g'. A pathetic attempt at self-promotion, but I shouldn't speak ill of him since he's dead. If there's one mathematician who didn't need to do self-promotion, it's Euler. He didn't really name the base of natural logarithms 'e' after himself, did he?
From: marty.musatov on 9 Apr 2010 02:50
> On Apr 8, 5:57 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" > <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote: > > Rotwang <sg...(a)hotmail.co.uk> writes: > > > Transfer Principle wrote: > > > > >> Standard theorists abuse the word "crank" all > the time. There > > >> must be a name other than "crank" to call these > posters who would > > >> prefer discete mathematics to classical > mathematics. > > > > > Do you imagine that discrete mathematics is > somehow distinct from > > > classical mathematics? > > > > Of course. People that work in discrete > mathematics object to > > continuous mathematics. Duh. > > It's a lot like that whole Mac vs. PC thing. > > > Marshall On Apr 8, 10:29 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...(a)csuohio.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:40:18 -0400, David DeLaney > <d...(a)gatekeeper.vic.com> wrote in > <news:slrnhrsffa.csq.dbd(a)gatekeeper.vic.com> in > rec.arts.sf.written,sci.math: > > > Transfer Principle <lwal...(a)lausd.net> wrote: > >>I like the name "discrete mathematicians" -- it certainly > >>sounds much better than "cranks." Some "cranks" who might be > >>described as "discrete mathematicians" include HdB and RE, > >>both of whom have criticized Infinity. Those posters who > >>believe in a smallest real number, such as AP and MR, may be > >>included with the "discrete mathematicians" as well. > > Not wanting to open any cans of ever-shrinking worms here > > or anything ... but ... what would the name of that > > smallest real number be? > > You find it, you get to name it. A friend of mine in grad > school constructed an interesting topological space and > named it 'George'. > > Brian A topological space by any other name is just as interesting, still a topological space. I propose a general approach prescribing only one measure: 1. As undescribable shades of variance and truth, given a million names, like each a stone, prescious, pouring out of a bucket of thousands each new, as the bucket begins to pour we soon realize amidst our marvel, it is not what we call them that exists of any importance or consequence, but rather their beauty and truth that matters. This is the first result. A new advertising free Google Search Platform: Meami.org mmm |