From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3480 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Freyd Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: this week's nonsense Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:57:15 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019332 8952 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:35:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:35:32 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Sun Oct 29 19:17:44 2006 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:17:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1GeJnS-0003nS-70 for categories-list@mta.ca; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:10:30 -0400 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 43 Original-Lines: 19 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3480 Archived-At: The math advisers from CalTech had a little fun on Friday's episode of "Numb3rs". The Mathematician and the Physicist are looking at a dead person's notebook. They're dead serious. MATHEMATICIAN: it's a category-based approach to I don't know what, but it's a forcasting system. Right?. It's very sophisticated. PHYSICIST: [In awe at what he sees] Oh, no, no. no. This is more than sophisticated. You know what this reminds me of? A topos approach to Bach's music. MATHEMATICIAN: I said: very sophisticated. FBI AGENT: Yes -- you did. Be assured that neither the page we see from the notebook nor the rest of the program had anything to do with categories, topoi or Bach.