From: jim stasheff <jds@math.upenn.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: cracks and pots and Mac Lane
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 10:11:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FPpQ6-00023n-WE@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Eduardo quotes Mac Lane as saying
(paraphrased) If it hasn't been proved, it isn't mathematics
Much as I admire Mac Lane and owe much to him,
that's rather at odds with what most of us do
even those who insist on getting a proof ultimately.
case in point:
http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2005-06/v18n2/04.shtml
if that isn't math, what is it?
(perjorative adjective of your choice) mathematics?
Was Newton doing *only* physics?
jim
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