NP Alabama Pi

[Muchasmasgracias at cs.com]

kortbein at iastate.edu writes:

<< What you're talking about is history of mathematics, though, and no
 longer epistemology, which IIRC was the original thrust of this
 discussion. >>

Often when somebody starts discussing the "history of BLANK" instead of 
discussing BLANK, that's because they want to undermine the epistemological 
claims produced by the proponents/practicioners of BLANK.