From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3073 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jim stasheff Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Alexander Grothendieck on `speculation' Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:27:37 -0500 Message-ID: <440C7F19.7080705@math.upenn.edu> References: <003801c6404f$70d2e020$9ea24e51@brown1> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019079 7137 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:31:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:31:19 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Mon Mar 6 16:13:36 2006 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:13:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.52) id 1FGLzI-0003Oy-LZ for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:07:24 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: <003801c6404f$70d2e020$9ea24e51@brown1> Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 19 Original-Lines: 22 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3073 Archived-At: 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 >