On 24/07/2013 23:21, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> You mathematician chaps could probably resolve this one nicely for >> yourselves by treating it as just another mangle by Applied >> Mathematicians <====== joke :-) > > Careful what you joke about. The New York University comp sci dept (my > home) is part the Courant Institute that also contains the very highly > regarded NYU math department, one that *emphasizes* applied math. :-) > > allan >
Oops :-) If I told you my closest colleague at work (who designs the algorithms for most of the code I maintain) has a masters in pure Mathematics - would we then at least be even? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com