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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,soc.culture.jewish
- Subject: Re: Which CAS have BA's in math?
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:31:03 GMT
- References: <1jhjkfINN8m9@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan19.205434.10234@leland.Stanford.EDU> <106190@netnews.upenn.edu> <1993Jan22.220532.3029@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- In-reply-to: rivin@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Igor Rivin)
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- [Soc.culture.jewish readers: this refers to the confusion generated by
- a Computer Algebra System publishing under the name Shalosh B. Ekhad.]
-
- In article <1993Jan22.220532.3029@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, rivin@SAIL (Igor Rivin) writes:
- >>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.
-
- >The story is that the name is not any product of the Illuminati
- >conspiracy, nor of the Jews for Jesus.
-
- That's why I ask. I only had my impressions from a distance to go on.
-
- > The computer in question is an
- >AT&T 3B1 model Unix PC. You figure it out.
-
- Let's see. 3-B-1, not 3-in-1. OK, got it. Perhaps it's time to work
- on a secret Jew for Jesus at AT&T conspiracy theory?
-
- > The enthusiasm is perfectly
- >understandable -- if you were a computer proving identities, you would
- >be enthusiastic too.
-
- That depends. What if they gave me a Genuine People Personality like
- Marvin instead of one of those elevators ....
-
- "Identity! Don't talk to me about identity!"--Weemba the Paranoid Android
-
- > 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?
-
- Not really. Why the _Hebrew_ for 3-in-1 instead of, say, Japanese?
-
- > 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.
-
- The only dementia I was referring to was the style of enthusiasm. I'm
- not expecting any "TIME HAS IDENTITY" to show up from Temple.
-
- "Temple? Are they building the third Temple?"--Weemba the Paranoid Android
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-