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- From: rivin@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Igor Rivin)
- Subject: Re: Which CAS have BA's in math?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.220532.3029@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1jhjkfINN8m9@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan19.205434.10234@leland.Stanford.EDU> <106190@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:05:32 GMT
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- In article <106190@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.205434.10234@leland.Stanford.EDU>, ilan@leland (ilan vardi) writes:
- >>>I doubt there is a computer algebra system that can get a degree
- >>>in mathematics: they don't write proofs (yet). However, I tried the
- >
- >>They write papers though. Shalosh B. Ekhad, Doron's Zeilberger's computer,
- >>has written a number of papers (more than I have, I think).
- >
- >What is the story about SBE? The papers I've seen seem to be somewhat
- >demented in enthusiasm, a feeling reinforced by the phoney name, which
- >gives the impression (being Hebrew for 3-in-1) that the author himself
- >is a demented with enthusiasm member of the Jews for Jesus.
- >--
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- The story is that the name is not any product of the Illuminati
- conspiracy, nor of the Jews for Jesus. The computer in question is an
- AT&T 3B1 model Unix PC. You figure it out. The enthusiasm is perfectly
- understandable -- if you were a computer proving identities, you would
- be enthusiastic too. On the other hand, suspecting that a computer is
- a member of Jews for Jesus (or demented, for that matter), is carrying
- anthropomorphism a bit far, don't you think? If, on the other hand,
- you comments were directed at Doron Zeilberber (one of the least
- demented mathematicians of my acquiantance), I view them as slanderous
- and in extremely bad taste, especially as they are obviously made
- behind the back of their subject.
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