Take that, Martin Hyland!
Copyright 2001 Gale Group, Inc. Business and Management Practices Mondaq Business Briefing - The Henley Business Partnership Ltd, United Kingdom May 18, 2001 HEADLINE: United Kingdom: Where Has All The Profit Gone? LENGTH: 1416 words BYLINE: Quinton, John ... Understanding these Cost Accounting and Management Reporting techniques requires intelligent effort, rather than a degree in mathematical logic from Cambridge. This is much more applied common sense than accounting wizardry. ...
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Peter Freyd wrote:
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Understanding these Cost Accounting and Management Reporting techniques requires intelligent effort, rather than a degree in mathematical logic from Cambridge. This is much more applied common sense than accounting wizardry.
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Yes, but what about a degree in mathematical logic from *Oxford*? (Unless you were referring to Martin's students ...) -= rags =- ================== R.A.G. Seely <rags@math.mcgill.ca> <http://www.math.mcgill.ca/rags>
I doubt if one should ever try to explain such a thing, but apparently when I quoted one John Quinton that there were matters that require ...intelligent effort, rather than a degree in mathematical logic from Cambridge with my comment "Take that, Martin Hyland" Robert was moved to ask: Yes, but what about a degree in mathematical logic from *Oxford*? (Unless you were referring to Martin's students ...) What I had in mind can be confirmed from the list of members of Cambridge's maths department: www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/site2000/Staff/Staff_List.html Martin's subject is listed as "Logic" (Peter's is "Topos Theory" -- and no one lists "Category Theory"). There are two others whose subject is listed as "Logic" but both are described as postdocs. This unique status of Martin must thus be born in mind by any who eschews intelligent effort in favor of a degree in mathematical logic from Cambridge.
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