Re: Religion in math.

From: Angus Rodgers (angus_prune_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 10/14/04 

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:02:53 +0100

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:24:13 +1300, Gib Bogle
<bogle@ihug.too.much.spam.co.nz> wrote:

>Yes. It is really just a bit of frivolity. Who could
>take seriously the concept of religion in mathematics,
>or mathematics in religion?

Ramanujan, for one. 

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