What a horrible blog post. I am not sure why you linked to it, Frank. What a pity, how much misinterpretation of careful scientific advice there is, out there.
Also, I wasn't all that impressed by Paulos's column. "[W]hat mathematicians call reductio ad absurdum"? Logicians have been calling it that a hell of a lot longer than mathematicians have.
What a horrible blog post. I am not sure why you linked to it, Frank. What a pity, how much misinterpretation of careful scientific advice there is, out there.
ReplyDeleteI linked to it, Maxine, because a feminist lawyer vs. a male mathematician seemed interesting.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I wasn't all that impressed by Paulos's column. "[W]hat mathematicians call reductio ad absurdum"? Logicians have been calling it that a hell of a lot longer than mathematicians have.
ReplyDelete