Timeline for A mathematical idea "abstract enough to be useless for physics"
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| Dec 12, 2010 at 2:56 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Cher Jérôme, I'm glad you liked this moving story. The quote by Hardy is to be found in his book "A Mathematician's Apology", on which there is a Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Apology. PS Je vois que nous sommes tous deux des oiseaux de nuit... Faites de beaux rêves, quand même ! | |
| Dec 12, 2010 at 2:31 | comment | added | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | @Georges : Now (lately) I found how to give point and mark the answer validation. It is a very nice parallel that should be cited more to give future scientists ways to defend themselves from soulless institutions interested in results only. | |
| Dec 12, 2010 at 2:26 | vote | accept | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | ||
| Sep 9, 2010 at 23:34 | comment | added | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | The question was put to me by someone else yet when he asked it I felt I had heard it before. You might be right that It is a Hardy quote . Do you remember if it is in his Number theory book. A META QUESTION : ( I do not known where to ask it ? - this is a meta-meta question- ) How do I click the check mark to accept an answer ???? . I would be glad to give points | |
| Sep 7, 2010 at 12:39 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Doug Piranha was the most feared man in the London underworld. This was largely due to his merciless use of sarcasm, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_Brothers | |
| Sep 7, 2010 at 12:08 | comment | added | Aaron Bergman | As "litotes", it's an English word, too. | |
| Sep 7, 2010 at 10:53 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Cher Chandan, félicitations pour votre peu commune érudition: I am amazed at your command of French since I would guess that not so many native French speakers know the meaning of litote! (For interested readers: litote is a sort of understatement where you convey an idea by essentially doubly negating it.) | |
| Sep 7, 2010 at 10:13 | comment | added | Chandan Singh Dalawat | "a non entirely negligible role" : quelle litote! | |
| Sep 7, 2010 at 7:35 | history | answered | Georges Elencwajg | CC BY-SA 2.5 |