From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] > I really
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:41:47 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170327124147.7225318C085@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Doug McIlroy
> As Erdos would say of a particularly elegant proof, "It comes from the
> Book," i.e. had divine inspiration.
Just to clarify, Erdos felt that a deity (whom he referred to as the 'Supreme
Facist') was unlikly to exist; his use of such concepts was just a figure of
speech. 'The Book' was sort of a Platonic Ideal. Nice concept, though!
Noel
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2017-03-27 12:41 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2017-03-27 21:50 ` Nemo
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2017-03-27 1:44 Doug McIlroy
2017-03-27 2:47 ` Larry McVoy
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