From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5306 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Stay Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Dangerous knowledge Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:29:34 -0800 Message-ID: Reply-To: Mike Stay NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259672991 9589 80.91.229.12 (1 Dec 2009 13:09:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:09:51 +0000 (UTC) To: Dana Scott , categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Tue Dec 01 14:09:44 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NFSUC-00017s-B0 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:09:44 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NFRzI-00047B-Pt for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:37:48 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5306 Archived-At: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dana Scott wrote: > I think the premise of the work is silly. I agree; it seems to be an urban legend that to be a great artist--whether a musician, painter, mathematician, or what have you--one has to be mentally unstable. Perhaps it's a way for people to excuse themselves for never creating a work of great beauty. -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]