
1 Oct
2008
1 Oct
'08
6:37 p.m.
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 20:56 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: . . .
You know, it's interesting... I posted this in another forum, and people just said "dude, why would you try to eat a whole 2 Kg of chocolate? That's really unhealthy." I post the same thing here and now people are arguing about Dedekind cuts... da HELL?! o_O
An interesting dichotomy of perspectives, don't you think?
Maybe the dichotomy is in the distribution of free-wheeling imagination. I'm reminded of the (apocryphal?) story about Hilbert's assessment of poetry and mathematics. -- Bill Wood