NP Alabama Pi

[Dan Piponi]

On the subject of Re: NP Alabama Pi, jporter stated:

> Yes, but we are talking about Pi, the mathematical concept, and the growing
> realization that there may be no such animal as pure math, that math is just
> as messy and experimental as physics.

Well I think practicioners in the art know pure mathematics is
pretty messy.  If it weren't it'd be easy and hence interesting to
nobody!  Who are the growing realisers?  Since Godel mathematicians
have known that Russell's dream of a neat and tidy mathematics with
the last 't' crossed and 'i' dotted was just that - a dream.  (Well
many had doubts before that.) (In a nice way I think Godel also
showed pure mathematics can be seen as a part of physics - but I'm
straying)  Hmmm...I think that the growing realisers are the
journalists of the popular press who take about 50 years or so to
notice the revolutions.

Apologies for this must now be straying well off the topic in hand.
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sigfpe