From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5987 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charles Wells Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Principle and Practice Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:44:16 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: Charles Wells NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278971024 15141 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2010 21:43:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:43:44 +0000 (UTC) To: catbb Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Mon Jul 12 23:43:42 2010 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 1OYQms-0005QX-K6 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:43:42 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1OYQAx-00003l-Vj for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:04:32 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5987 Archived-At: Michael Barr wrote: Let me begin my answer with an aphorism. I don't know who said it first, but I heard it from Charles Wells. In principle, there is no difference between principle and practice, but in practice... It was Jan van de Snepscheut. --Charles -- professional website: http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/math/wells/home.html blog: http://sixwingedseraph.wordpress.com/ abstract math website: http://www.abstractmath.org/MM//MMIntro.htm astounding math stories: http://www.abstractmath.org/MM//MMAstoundingMath.htm personal website: http://www.abstractmath.org/Personal/index.html sixwingedseraph.facebook.com [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]