Attempts at definitions like this one are seductive, but they always fail.
I was at the ICM in Madrid last week, and there was a session called 'What
is Mathematics?'.
There was consensus only about the usual operational definition,
'Mathematics is what mathematicians do'.
Ergo, an OS is . . .
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
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