From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5311 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joyal=2C_Andr=E9?= Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Dangerous ignorance Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:59:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joyal=2C_Andr=E9?= NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259717394 29961 80.91.229.12 (2 Dec 2009 01:29:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 01:29:54 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Wed Dec 02 02:29:47 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 1NFe2M-0001Hx-21 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:29:46 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NFdQp-0001hV-3W for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:50:59 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5311 Archived-At: Many thanks to Dana Scott, Alex Hoffnung and Jim Stasheff for expressing their view on the BBC "documentary". I also think that the documentary is a big distorsion of the truth. =20 Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt G=F6del and Alan Turing were = fighting ignorance. They knew that knowledge is liberating and ignorance dangerous. AJ [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]