I accept the compliment. Add that to Nick calling me a Cartesian and John Baez calling me a logician and I feel that I've made it.
In Baez's book, Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity, he says that 1x1 real matrices are real numbers. When I explained to him why that isn't true he said, "Only logicians care about that." Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 8:47 AM Prof David West <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick used to spread a scurrilous rumor that I was a Libertarian. (Of > course, I retaliated with a rumor of his mysticism.) > > Reading this: > > > https://therabbitisin.com/the-pythagorean-illuminati-and-their-mathematical-reality-a207ee952d30 > > made me wonder if FRIAM harbors a number of Pythagorean Illuminati. Nick, > Marcus, Glen, Frank, and Jon come immediately to mind; based on my > voluminous research of key words and phrases in their various posts. > > Just saying ... > > davew > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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