Re: Publicity

On 05/06/13 21:28, Ross Street wrote:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/350567/description/One_of_the_mos...

Perhaps the above article is more good than harm.

Ross www.math.mq.edu.au/~street

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I just read the article. It seems to me that it is empty marketing. But, anyway, marketing has been extensively used in mathematics, to witness, Thom's theory of catastrophes (hiding that there was good mathematics underneath). e.d. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]