To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] A little Proof, Dr Thurston! It aint Elementary!
Robert,
thanks for the additional quotations.
However, you made a slip of the fingers when you keyed in one of the passages.
To head off needless controversy, I key it in correctly below. The capitalized
Who the Hell is Dr. Thurston? And how does he support his astonishing
statement that mathematical proofs are easier than programming? I can
respond only with my own experience. I was a mathematics scholar at the
University of Cambridge (like Newton, but a little later). My supervisor and
I think this is him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thurston
Thanks
Robert C
plissa...@comcast.net wrote:
Who the Hell is Dr. Thurston? And how does he support his astonishing
statement that mathematical proofs are easier than programming? I
can respond only with my own experience.
On 12/15/09 12:27 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
I think this is him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thurston
The essay that Russ mentioned only mentions programming in passing.. He
doesn't say anything about it relative to `intellectual challenge', but
he does talk a lot about what is
...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
- Original Message -
From: Marcus G. Daniels
To: friam@redfish.com
Sent: 12/15/2009 1:09:23 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] A little Proof, Dr Thurston! It aint Elementary
On 12/15/09 2:10 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
However, you made a slip of the fingers when you keyed in one of the
passages. To head off needless controversy, I key it in correctly
below. The capitalized word is where the slipup occured.
Sorry about that, I need a compiler to throw my
