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From: jim stasheff <jds@math.upenn.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: cracks and pots and Mac Lane
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:02:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FQZGy-00008p-TY@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)

No, guess I was too telegraphic
I meant to ask
if
They are using numerical
 > calculations, which I suppose can be routinely verified as such, but
 > with novel applications in biology.

but they themselves are not *proving* anything
then they are not doing mathematics???

jim



Colin McLarty wrote:
> I am not sure I understand this.  Jim, do you mean to say that these
> people are using some mathematical statments that are not proved?  The
> article seems to me to say the opposite:  They are using numerical
> calculations, which I suppose can be routinely verified as such, but
> with novel applications in biology.
>
> Colin
>



             reply	other threads:[~2006-04-03 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-03 15:02 jim stasheff [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-02  7:36 Mamuka Jibladze
2006-04-02  1:42 Colin McLarty
2006-04-01 15:11 jim stasheff

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