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From: jim stasheff <jds@math.upenn.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Alexander Grothendieck on `speculation'
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:27:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <440C7F19.7080705@math.upenn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003801c6404f$70d2e020$9ea24e51@brown1>

This suggests two possibiloities:

for the brave, start your own blog for speculations
for the timid, same input but into a file only you can access
until late in life and famous you can show how you had the ideas all
along

jim


Ronald Brown wrote:
> I am in the process of editing my correspondence 1982-1991 with AG which has
> been latexed through George Malsiniotis for appearing as part of an Appendix
> to a published edition of `Pursuing Stacks'.  I came across the following
> extract  which seemed to me to contain points of general interest about
> mathematical methodology and sociology, so I give this below, to invite
> comments.
>
> Ronnie Brown
> www.bangor.ac.uk/r.brown
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-06 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-05 12:21 Ronald  Brown
2006-03-05 15:38 ` Krzysztof Worytkiewicz
2006-03-06 18:27 ` jim stasheff [this message]
2006-03-14 22:43   ` Ronald  Brown
2006-03-15  9:31     ` Gaucher Philippe

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