From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7748 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Fred E.J. Linton" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Publicity Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:35:38 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Fred E.J. Linton" NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370720745 4347 80.91.229.3 (8 Jun 2013 19:45:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 19:45:45 +0000 (UTC) To: Ross Street , "categories" Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sat Jun 08 21:45:46 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.1.186]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UlP58-0000hU-5o for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2013 21:45:46 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:38808) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UlP31-0002nd-5W; Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:43:35 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UlP31-0002jq-Bh for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:43:35 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7748 Archived-At: On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:26:15 AM EDT 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. Over the years, author Julie Rehmeyer has given birth to quite a litter, http://www.sciencenews.org/view/authored/id/43/name/Julie_Rehmeyer , of mathematically literate news articles, including, for example, a repor= t on the claim of "Vinay Deolalikar, a computer scientist at Hewlett Packar= d = labs in India, [who] sent an email on August 7 [of the year 2010] to a fe= w = top researchers claiming that P doesn=E2=80=99t equal NP" -- cf.: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/63252/description/Crowdsourcin= g_peer_review The piece you point to strikes me as quite reasonable, actually, apart fr= om = the two pairs of paragraphs reporting on the ... umm ... thinking (?) of Messrs. Harper and Spivak, which strike me as being probably accurate depictions of their own cockeyed cocktail-party gibberish. [But then, what do I know? I'm just a retiree from tiny little Wesleyan, = after all, not an active respected member of Carnegie Mellon or MIT :-) .= ] But all the rest is about as close to the mark as a discussion pitched = to the interested and sympathetic layperson can possibly be. Cheers, and thanks for pointing that piece out, -- Fred [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]