From: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: WHY ARE WE CONCERNED? I
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:33:51 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17451.46095.476795.214410@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
Vaughan Pratt writes:
[...]
>
> This slick proof seems only to have emerged in the past couple of
> decades. It is an interesting commentary on mathematics that it took
> this long for people to come up with an argument "for the rest of us."
> Maybe some people "knew" it all along, but in that case they were
> keeping pretty quiet about it.
This proof was used by Pontryagin in the April 1982 issue of "Kvant"
magazine (targeting school-children!):
http://kvant.mccme.ru/1982/04/osnovnaya_teorema_algebry.htm (in
Russian, but pictures should be enough).
>
> Vaughan Pratt
Nikita.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-30 10:33 Nikita Danilov [this message]
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2006-03-31 14:30 jim stasheff
2006-03-30 23:44 Colin McLarty
2006-03-30 19:28 Marta Bunge
2006-03-30 17:10 Vaughan Pratt
2006-03-30 14:08 Peter Selinger
2006-03-30 9:03 Prof. Peter Johnstone
2006-03-30 8:13 Graham White
2006-03-29 15:42 James Stasheff
2006-03-29 13:22 Reinhard Boerger
2006-03-26 21:43 F W Lawvere
2006-03-28 20:51 ` jim stasheff
2006-03-29 20:10 ` Vaughan Pratt
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