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>From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
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Subject: Re: Existence
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In article <1991Dec7.154729.2221@arizona.edu> bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs) writes:
>  What is especially amusing is that Zeleny thinks his attitude
>is shared by mathematicians.  I am a mathematician (though I'm
>now doing neuroscience), and I assert that any mathematician who
>took Zeleny's approach would be lynched.  I can just imagine
>the scene:
>
>Mathematician:  "Now if we look at the projection of the 
>	cotangent bundle . . ."
>
>Audience:  "How do you define the 'cotangent bundle'?"
>
>Math:  "What!  This is thoroughly discussed by Smale.  If you
>	haven't read Smale, what the fuck are you doing at my
>	lecture?!"
>
>Aud:  "Kill."
>
>Math:  "Gug-gug-gug."

Try this scenario:

Mathematician:  "Now let (x,j) be a point on the complex plain ...

Audience Member:  "Mathematicians don't understand what "complex" means
                   why ...




