Re: 1-1/2+1/3-1/4+1/5-1/6+1/7
- From: "Jesse F. Hughes" <jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:24:11 -0500
Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Is mathematics the art of making things unnecessarily complicated?
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
(Albert Einstein)
I certainly don't think that you *have* to memorize Halmos's notation
to follow the discussion, but some of us believe that the introduction
of these distinctions clarifies rather than obfuscates.
--
Jesse F. Hughes
"LOL. How arrogant you are. Now when you realize that I DID prove
Goldbach's conjecture and that I proved Fermat's Last Theorem as well,
how are you going to feel then?" -- James Harris
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