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To: Dimensio
Or are you just using two different meanings of the same word for a false equivocation? Or is it something else that I've not considered?

He's just another clown. Strange people these mathematicians - except the applied ones, of course.

119 posted on 11/25/2005 2:20:11 PM PST by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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To: balrog666
Strange people these mathematicians - except the applied ones, of course.

I always strive for charm and beauty rather than strangeness. (I got that from Reagan's movie: "Bedtime for Bosons.")

175 posted on 11/25/2005 6:26:52 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: balrog666
Strange people these mathematicians - except the applied ones, of course.

Applied mathematics is usually neither.

Oh, and thanks ever so much for the courtesy ping.

176 posted on 11/25/2005 6:30:32 PM PST by AmishDude (Your corporate slogan could be here! FReepmail me for my confiscatory rates.)
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