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- From: cxm7@po.CWRU.Edu (Colin Mclarty)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Bozos Synonymous
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 23:54:56 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: cxm7@po.CWRU.Edu (Colin Mclarty)
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- In a previous article, levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) says:
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- >
- >You think that "crop circles" character is something. Wait till
- >you read "Sexual Personae" by Camille Paglia! Lots of complete
- >nonsense about how mathematics is done, and mathematicians
- >think!
- >
- >I defy this lady to explain why the derivative of x^2 is 2x. Meanwhile
- >she's making zillions, and I'm scrambling for pennies in graduate
- >school.
- >
- >
- I'm sure this is the first time anyone has complained about
- Paglia's views on math. What were they? I read the book but the math
- must have escaped me in the rush. (You probably are right that she
- couldn't explain deriviatives of polynomials.)
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- Colin
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