Subject: Re: Math?? (Was US govt & Technolgy Investment
From: kubo@zariski.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo)
Organization: Dept. of Math, Harvard Univ.
Keywords: science?
Nntp-Posting-Host: zariski.harvard.edu
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>greg mccolm suggested that math is a good example of the inertia
>(silver age) of current science.....
>
>is math really a science? what new has math "told" us recently?
>please dont flame me... ive taken no math since 11th grade...
>completed BC calc early and go the hell out... is there really
>NEW stuff going on?? (im not flaming, but honestly durious...)


Nope.  We're just living off the inheritance from our forefathers,
reading dusty old books, and exchanging baroque incantations among
a small circle of devotees.

