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From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [TUHS] > I really
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:50:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzwvmvz-cwE+v=a4YsAHRNOO3tdp84TmtyC3RtFOFSxnkg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170327124147.7225318C085@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

On 27 March 2017 at 08:41, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>     > 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!

http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783662442043

N.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-27 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-27 12:41 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-27 21:50 ` Nemo [this message]
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2017-03-27  1:44 Doug McIlroy
2017-03-27  2:47 ` Larry McVoy

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