Re: Help in answering news story on refutation of fermat's last theorem

Torkel Franzen wrote:
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> "Keith Ramsay" <kramsay@xxxxxxx> writes:
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> By "people", I had in mind people on the net who argue about
> incompleteness and related subjects, rather than mathematicians.

I would have believed THAT!

But that's not what your statement implied in the context:

Torkel Franzen wrote:
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> anzaurres1@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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> > When we, mathematicians, say that....
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> People do indeed often speak of ...

Your "people" was definitely addressing my "mathematicians".

I truly believed that you were talking about some non-logic
mathematicians.

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