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
>
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2006-04-03 15:02 jim stasheff [this message]
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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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