From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5309 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Hoffnung Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Dangerous knowledge Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 07:13:02 -0800 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Alex Hoffnung NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259717293 29791 80.91.229.12 (2 Dec 2009 01:28:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 01:28:13 +0000 (UTC) To: jds@math.upenn.edu, categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Wed Dec 02 02:28:06 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 1NFe0i-0000p3-Il for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:28:04 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NFdVp-0002D8-LA for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:56:09 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5309 Archived-At: To Jim - I have not read the source material on this quote, but the footnote which accompanies the quote says his physician (a psychiatrist) diagnosed Cantor with "cyclic manic-depression". I do not know of any further evidence of manic behavior, but also have not looked. Best, Alex On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:26 AM, jim stasheff wrote: > recurring bouts of > depression is not indicative of a bipolar disorder > were there also manic episodes? > > jim > > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]