Re: Godel proved maths inconsistent not incompleteness theorem

On Apr 18, 8:30 am, Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensi...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 2008-04-17, in sci.logic, Jesse F. Hughes wrote:

Right.  Once upon a time, you aced the SAT.  Therefore, your
mathematics really *is* top-notch.  Congrats!

This raises an important question. How are we supposed to judge the
mathematical skills of those unfortunate enough to not have been born
in the United States?

By their publications?

Don't worry - I think he thinks that the SAT (as in High School) used
to be easy.

In my case, we could just ask, "Did you make the highest score
possible on any national IQ test?" or more generally, "What percent of
the highest score possible did you make?"

There's also the Mathematics Association of America's annual
Mathematics competitions. I have a whole shelf of plaques and dumb
puzzle book awards from them.

C-B

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Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensi...@xxxxxxxxx)

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