From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/6651 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ellis D. Cooper" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Explanations Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:12:10 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Ellis D. Cooper" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304037659 18796 80.91.229.12 (29 Apr 2011 00:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:40:59 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Apr 29 02:40:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.4]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QFblO-0001uN-IX for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:40:54 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:42400) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFbh8-0001DY-Ct; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:36:30 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFbh3-0006iL-Qi for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:36:26 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:6651 Archived-At: In direct response to "computation alone is not mathematics, and neither is intuition alone. The former is typical of machines, whereas the latter is typical of artists" by Marta Bunge I would say rigor cleans the window through which intuition shines. Category theory is a house with many windows. Ellis D. Cooper [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]