From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3116 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jim stasheff Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: (unknown) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:08:42 -0500 Message-ID: <4418C8AA.7050201@math.upenn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019104 7313 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:31:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Thu Mar 16 05:30:36 2006 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:30:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.52) id 1FJoml-0005tF-Eo for categories-list@mta.ca; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:28:47 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Original-Lines: 42 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3116 Archived-At: To categories@mta.ca Subject: categories: Re: cracks and pots <3618C00E-DF36-4BD9-9BC3-A51AB6D1D422@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <3618C00E-DF36-4BD9-9BC3-A51AB6D1D422@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 62 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 > > > > >