Re: Peano's space-filling curve

From: John Morgan (john.morgan_at_REMOVECAPSataraxie.fr)
Date: 06/10/04 

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:06:01 +0200

Jesse F. Hughes <jesse@phiwumbda.org> wrote in message
news:87ekoq1dt1.fsf@phiwumbda.org...
> "John Morgan" <john.morgan@REMOVECAPSataraxie.fr> writes:
>
> > My advice to you would be to visit a newsgroup that
> >devotes itself to topics related to, and as close as
> >possible to, the Dirac equation. Ask a simple
> >straightforward question about it, state your
> >antecedents clearly, then sit back and
> >wait for the sneering insults about your lack of
> >intelligence to roll in. Be persistent, and if you are
> >able to (this next bit is pretty tough, though), be
> >courteous and try to never respond in kind.
> >(I do, unfortunately, but what the heck)
>
> You forgot the part where you admonish the experts for
> failing to really think about their foundations. Then be
> sure that you tell them that in any other discipline,
> results and their justifications can be explained in a
> post or two, so what's wrong with them? It also helps
> to ask whether a well-known result is just "b*ll*cks"
> [sic] in that very first post.

I don't think I need to point out that much of my post
replying to Shmuel was slightly tongue-in-cheek. But you
knew that already. If not, then you're not as smart as I
imagined. What I do need to say is that sci.math is much
better behaved than some newsgroups when a so-called
"newbie" happens along. Which is why I didn't add the other
stuff you propose, although I can
think of groups where I would have poured in the irony with
a cement mixer. N.b. I do write bollocks instead of
b*ll*cks, but only when I really believe that it is :-)

> Finally, repeat over and over that you are a "scientist"
> so they don't confuse you with a garden variety buffoon.

Believe I did mention horticulture somewhere.

> Make proclamations that, as a scientist, you are
> "forbidden" to use words like "impossible".

And if you are only able to understand and use "straight"
language, I feel sorry for you. There's not much fun in
that.

> That's the best way to show your credentials.

Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't. But it seems to have got me
the result I wanted, although_none_of the important steps
along the way originated in posts from you. On the plus
side, vis-a-vis your posts, I do enjoy replying to people
who are as cantankerous as I am. Every "scientist" needs his
RnR, even if pricking witches is a little unseemly these
days.

I say. What naughty little boys we're being, going totally
off-topic like this. I shall tell mummy you led me into it,
so there!

> "That's the base tautological space where by tautological
> space I mean a region of truth."
> -- James S. Harris does philosophy of mathematics.
> JSH is a renaissance man.

And JFH his biggest fan? You do keep on quoting him so I
suppose I should look him up in Whose Who. If I can get his
addy I'll send him a note about good punctuation.

Cheers

John
At times I think there are no words
But these to tell what's true
And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden
 - Bob Dylan

P.s. If you need the BD poetry transliterating into
"straight" language, please ask. Weierstrass said," No
mathematician can be a complete mathematician unless he is
also something of a poet", but then maybe you are not a
"complete mathematician". So. Tell me.
How does it feel, oh, how does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone - B.D.

J

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