Re: mathematicians and longhand arithmetic

From: John M. Gamble (jgamble_at_ripco.com)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:13:51 +0000 (UTC)

In article <10ekuglb80rpbd8@corp.supernews.com>,
Alex Hunsley <lard@tardis.ed.ac.molar.uk> wrote:
>
>All this reminds me of a *terrible* introduction to a book I read. Some
>completely clueless idiot was trying to make analogies in subjects he hadn't a
>scooby about. He was talking about how people manage with what's available, and
>one of the his analogies to that was basically this:
>
> "Einstein formulated general relativity and there are only ten digits!"
>
>Talk about missing the point on soooo many levels.
>The other analogies were also laughable. One was that "Da Vinci painted
>beautiful paintings when there are only three prime colours". DUH! And the
>final nail in the coffin for this fool was saying that "Beethoven composed
>beautiful music when there are only 12 notes in the scale".. AARGH! Kill this
>moron!
>

I have a sudden compulsive need to read that introduction. What's
the title of the book? 

-- 
	-john
February 28 1997: Last day libraries could order catalogue cards
from the Library of Congress.

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