From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5816 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Baez Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: The stabilisation theorem Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 11:44:11 -0700 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: John Baez NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274120090 31287 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2010 18:14:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 18:14:50 +0000 (UTC) To: categories Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Mon May 17 20:14:49 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OE4q0-0002yI-0Y for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 20:14:48 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1OE4K1-0001UP-5K for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 17 May 2010 14:41:45 -0300 In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5816 Archived-At: Andr=C3=A9 wrote: Too simple to be true? > No, I always hoped for a simple proof! And this proof is not "too simple". It seems all the hard work is packed into the formalism that underlies the proof. And that's how it should be, I think. So, I'm happy. Best, jb [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]