Re: Math people, not cool
From: David Moran (dmoran_at_rossby.metr.ou.edu)
Date: 09/25/04
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:56:00 -0500
"James Harris" <jstevh@msn.com> wrote in message
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> I'm a mathematician.
>
> I think that mathematicians don't really come across from history
> books, which is why I'm so out of place in this time, as many of you
> seem to think you know what math is about, and what it means to be a
> mathematician, but you fail the most basic test: truth above all else
>
> However, being a mathematician, I deal with reality as it is, not as I
> wish it to be, and besides being a mathematician I'm a problem solver
> and a scientist.
>
> The reality is that the math people of today are not cool.
>
> You people are not cool.
>
> Mathematicians inherently are cool.
>
> Check your history. Read carefully, and you'll see what I mean.
>
> Like Gauss had 12 kids or something. Newton might have been a virgin,
> but he ordered people executed for counterfeiting.
>
> Mathematicians are cool, you people are not.
>
> I'm thinking a bit about some things and debating how to proceed.
>
> I can crush you now, be bored, or I can crush you later, and party
> now.
>
> I think I'll party now, and crush you later, like in a few years, but
> probably within a decade.
>
>
> James Harris
Hitting the bottle a little early, aren't you James?
Dave
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