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From: jim stasheff <jds@math.upenn.edu>
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:08:42 -0500	[thread overview]
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For that remember (if any are as old as I)
matrices good, groups bad

the gruppenpest

jim


Krzysztof Worytkiewicz wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
>




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