Re: JSH: Why do people lie ?

Proginoskes <CCHeckman@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Oct 25, 11:15 am, "bob" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"JSH" <jst...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1193292673.218653.51300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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To them "pure math" is just a way to make money, and who cares, after
all, there is all this science and technology out there anyway, which
relies on the correct applied math, so who does it hurt?

moron, there is little difference between pure and applied, you have never
done either. [...]

To a pure mathematician, there is no difference between pure math and
applied math; to an applied mathematician, there is.

With apologies to Yogi Berra, I presume?


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