From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Nov 19 1997 - 17:30:01 MST
At 07:59 PM 11/18/97 -0500, Abraham Moses Genen wrote:
>My question is: Can anything be more absurd than the abstractions being
discussed in this string???
>
>AMG
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One thing is more absurd, sir - your continuing insistence on including
these bloody attachments, to wit, in this instance (now that I have
retrieved it from my hard disk, preparatory to zapping the damnable thing,
and going on to hunt down the rest of your little gifts):
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Anton
Sherwood
<<A href="mailto:dasher@netcom.com">dasher@netcom.com</A>><BR>To: <A
href="mailto:extropians@extropy.com">extropians@extropy.com</A> <<A
href="mailto:extropians@extropy.com">extropians@extropy.com</A>><BR>Date:
Monday, November 17, 1997 9:56 PM<BR>Subject: Re: Infinities<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV></FONT>>Damien Broderick writes<BR>>: There's a century of
mathematics dealing with this topic [orders of<BR>>: infinity]. I'm
entranced to find people starting again from scratch.<BR>>: Next we could
have a heated debate about whether parallel lines meet.
:)<BR>><BR>>Sure, why not. I hear that Marilyn Vos Savant says
the
recent proof<BR>>of Fermat's Last Theorem is unsound because it relies on
nonEuclidean<BR>>geometry.<BR>><BR>>Now, which had less of an
excuse to
distrust hyperbolic geometry:<BR>>Ms Vos Savant, or
C.L.Dodgson?<BR>><BR>>(Dodgson rejected it because of ideal triangles -
figures with infinite<BR>>perimeter, zero angles, and finite area -
which he
called absurd.)<BR>><BR>>Anton Sherwood *\\* +1
415 267 0685 *\\* <A
href="mailto:DASher@netcom.com">DASher@netcom.com</A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Dear
Fellow
Extropians:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">As I
recall,
C.L Dodgson also wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:
#ffffff"></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:
#ffffff">"Said
the Walrus to the Carpenter let's talk of other things,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Of
shoes and
ships and sealing wax, of Cabbages and Kings,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Of why
the
sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings, etc."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">My
question
is: Can anything be more absurd than the abstractions being discussed in this
string???</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">AMG
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