Rod Speed wrote:


It certainly doesnt make any sense to be teaching plumbers pure maths unless they want to do that.


Actually EVERYBODY ought to have if not the facility to use it, a
basic *understanding* of pure maths philosophy and science.

Buy that I don't mean following the reasoning, just understanding where
it fits in the general pool of knowledge.

Then I could dispense with the signature below.


I had to plough through Penrose twice before I realised WTF he was
actually doing...and that it was in principle, simple ..though the
actual mechanics of manipulating abstract algebras, I will take on trust.




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To people who know nothing, anything is possible.
To people who know too much, it is a sad fact
that they know how little is really possible -
and how hard it is to achieve it.