Re: On Hardy's essay: "A mathematician's apology"

From: Ari (NOaristotlepolonium_at_yahoo.comSPAM)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:07:57 -0600

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Too bad Hardy wasn't a topologist . . . .

Aristotle Polonium

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"Timothy Murphy" <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote in message news:oChFd.45503$Z14.24360@news.indigo.ie...
> Jesse F. Hughes wrote:
>
>> Much computer science is closer to pure
>> mathematics than to applied mathematics.
>
> Most computer science is closer to cookery than either.
>
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> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
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> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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