From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5324 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jim stasheff Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Dangerous knowledge Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:58:15 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: jim stasheff NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259882048 17523 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2009 23:14:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 23:14:08 +0000 (UTC) To: John Baez , categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Fri Dec 04 00:14:01 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 1NGKs5-0006JH-2y for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:14:01 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NGKTq-0001lm-Jn for categories-list@mta.ca; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:48:58 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5324 Archived-At: > and if it makes one youngster pursue a career in mathematics instead of > crime, that may justify its existence. > > Best, > jb > at least one or more episodes of Numb3ers made that point jim [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]