From: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" <edubuc@dm.uba.ar>
To: Ross Street <ross.street@mq.edu.au>
Cc: "categories@mta.ca" <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Publicity
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:46:49 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1UkjoD-0003Ut-44@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Uka9s-0001mR-LE@mlist.mta.ca>
On 05/06/13 21:28, Ross Street wrote:
> http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/350567/description/One_of_the_most_abstract_fields_in_math_finds_application_in_the_real_world
>
> Perhaps the above article is more good than harm.
>
> Ross
> www.math.mq.edu.au/~street
>
>
>
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I just read the article. It seems to me that it is empty marketing. But,
anyway, marketing has been extensively used in mathematics, to witness,
Thom's theory of catastrophes (hiding that there was good mathematics
underneath).
e.d.
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2013-05-30 13:09 Workshop on Logics for Resources, Processes and Programs, 16 September 2013, Nancy, France Pym, Professor David J.
2013-06-06 0:28 ` Publicity Ross Street
2013-06-06 15:46 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc [this message]
2013-06-07 14:40 ` Publicity Ronnie Brown
[not found] ` <51B1F0C1.7040509@btinternet.com>
2013-06-07 21:46 ` Publicity Ross Street
2013-06-07 15:53 ` Publicity Vaughan Pratt
[not found] ` <24659_1370525088_51B08DA0_24659_212_1_E1Uka9s-0001mR-LE@mlist.mta.ca>
2013-06-06 14:38 ` Publicity Marta Bunge
[not found] ` <51B1D325.9090803@univ-savoie.fr>
[not found] ` <E1UlPE2-000307-7e@mlist.mta.ca>
2013-06-08 20:09 ` Publicity Jeremy Gibbons
2013-06-10 7:53 ` Publicity Patrik Eklund
[not found] ` <BAY405-EAS412C574EC8D0E67E2485565DF9A0@phx.gbl>
2013-06-11 12:40 ` Publicity Tom Hirschowitz
2013-06-13 7:25 ` Publicity Steve Vickers
[not found] ` <103F7278-41D1-463F-B03C-D4B99E56DA49@cs.bham.ac.uk>
2013-06-13 9:07 ` Publicity Tom Hirschowitz
[not found] ` <CA+KbugedoXnnv8xHKwuug0-LWtZ0ks9U7SovZNQ8mLZ+1oCaFQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-06-08 20:30 ` Publicity Urs Schreiber
2013-06-07 2:35 Publicity Fred E.J. Linton
2013-06-08 21:13 Publicity Fred E.J. Linton
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