From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3102 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Krzysztof Worytkiewicz Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: cracks and pots Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:26:53 -0500 Message-ID: <3618C00E-DF36-4BD9-9BC3-A51AB6D1D422@mac.com> References: <200603141956.k2EJu9625544@math-cl-n03.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019095 7258 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:31:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:31:35 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Wed Mar 15 19:18:48 2006 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.52) id 1FJfF0-0003XW-6G for categories-list@mta.ca; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:17:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200603141956.k2EJu9625544@math-cl-n03.ucr.edu> Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 48 Original-Lines: 19 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3102 Archived-At: The blog in question is indeed more than dubious. Besides the "scientific" manicheism (group good, monoid bad...), what to think about ranking countries according to a "civilization index"? The blogger also claims he was mastering differential geometry and particle physics at age of 15, so he obviously was too busy and missed the provocative phase. Not a reason however to try to catch it up as an "adult". Cheers Krzysztof -- my government will categorically deny the incident ever occurred