TP or NP? Trial ballon goes up

[Ian Livingston]

True, I admit it. And there are some mathematicians who write very well.
So, by way of atonement, I offer this old favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re3-xo9bRc8

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>wrote:

> Ian Livingston sez:
>
> ****
>
> Algebra just makes no sense. I stand with Laurie Anderson on the principle
> that x=x, not y base 8 times z to the minus fourth power. Efforts to
> crystallize experience, which is fluid and non-repeating, are purely
> mystical and have little real meaning. The results of "progress" based on
> changing reality into something else have been, well, catastrophic, to
> euphemize the result…****
>
> ** **
>
> This sounds like engineers I’ve heard fuming about their frustrations in
> English class:  “What was all that ‘symbolism’ crap about? Why can’t
> writers just say what they MEAN instead of going on about albatrosses and
>  white elephants?”****
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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