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- From: hanche@ams.sunysb.edu (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
- Subject: Re: Why Algebra...Important
- In-Reply-To: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21: 39:12 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan25.164019.19356@Princeton.EDU> <C1FItD.AxF@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:01:24 GMT
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- >>>>> In article <C1FItD.AxF@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>,
- >>>>> ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) writes:
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- Dave> In article <1993Jan25.164019.19356@Princeton.EDU>
- Dave> tao@mace.Princeton.EDU (Terry Tao) writes:
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- > Claim: \exists Cup = {(x, y, z) = d((x, y), Cup_0) = r_cup, z_0 < z
- > < z_0 + h_cup} \cup {(x, y, z_0): d((x, y), Cup_0) < r_cup}:d(Cup,
- > me) < \epsilon_0 \and \exists Coffee = \{ f(x, y): d((x, y), Cup_0)
- > < r_cup} s.t. Coffee \in \overbar {Cup} \and T_coffee > 90 F \and t
- > > t_0 => Hap_me(t) > Hap_me(t_0).
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- Dave> I had heard that a mathematician is someone who converts coffee into
- Dave> theorems, but I had not yet seen a demonstration.
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- I thought the point here was to turn a theorem into coffee?
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- - Harald
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