To categories@mta.ca Subject: categories: Re: cracks and pots <3618C00E-DF36-4BD9-9BC3-A51AB6D1D422@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <3618C00E-DF36-4BD9-9BC3-A51AB6D1D422@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 62 For that remember (if any are as old as I) matrices good, groups bad the gruppenpest jim Krzysztof Worytkiewicz wrote:

The blog in question is indeed more than dubious. Besides the "scientific" manicheism (group good, monoid bad...), what to think about ranking countries according to a "civilization index"? The blogger also claims he was mastering differential geometry and particle physics at age of 15, so he obviously was too busy and missed the provocative phase. Not a reason however to try to catch it up as an "adult".

Cheers

Krzysztof

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