From: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" <edubuc@dm.uba.ar>
To: jim stasheff <jds@math.upenn.edu>, categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Dangerous knowledge
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:56:53 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NINIZ-0005MG-G7@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NGKTq-0001lm-Jn@mailserv.mta.ca>
yes, but be careful, the option is not mathematics or crime, it is
mathematics or somenthig else
pursue a career in mathematics by (or because) wrong reasons can only
lead to a bad mathematician and/or a frustrated man
a waste, not a criminal but ... ?
jim stasheff wrote:
>> 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
>
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-03 14:58 jim stasheff
2009-12-03 23:56 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc [this message]
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2009-12-01 0:29 Mike Stay
2009-11-29 23:31 Joyal, André
2009-11-30 16:51 ` Mike Stay
2009-11-30 23:37 ` Dana Scott
2009-12-01 1:40 ` Alex Hoffnung
2009-12-01 14:26 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-01 14:30 ` Ronnie Brown
2009-12-01 2:32 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-01 15:13 ` Alex Hoffnung
2009-12-01 16:43 ` Robert Seely
2009-12-02 17:27 ` Ronnie Brown
2009-12-01 13:56 ` Charles Wells
2009-12-02 2:16 ` John Baez
2009-12-06 18:46 ` Vaughan Pratt
2009-12-07 2:46 ` Joyal, André
2009-12-07 13:46 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-08 19:15 ` Vaughan Pratt
2009-12-07 17:18 ` Steve Vickers
2009-12-10 18:03 ` Dangerous_knowledge Joyal, André
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