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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Hi Frank,</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I didn't realize it was supposed to be a joke --it seemed like a relevant example. I'm not an algebraic geometer but:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> . . . there is a historical survey in <a href="https://www.ime.usp.br/~pleite/pub/artigos/abhyankar/abhyankar.pdf" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk514768" previewremoved="true">
https://www.ime.usp.br/~pleite/pub/artigos/abhyankar/abhyankar.pdf</a></p>
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Historical Ramblings in Algebraic Geometry and Related Algebra Author(s): Shreeram S. Abhyankar Source: The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 83, No. 6 (Jun. - Jul ...</div>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a href="https://www.ime.usp.br/~pleite/pub/artigos/abhyankar/abhyankar.pdf" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk599069" previewremoved="true"></a>If you read that you can tell if you like Ahbyankar's style. He wrote a more
thorough survey in 295 pages called "Algebraic Geometry for Scientists and Engineers'' (including computer scientists. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">--John</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 27, 2018 5:53:53 PM<br>
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<div dir="auto">Sorry, John. It was a weak attempt to be humorous.
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<div dir="auto">Also, I mistyped. I meant "algebraic geometry" when I was asking for a book recommendation.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Frank<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 12:56 PM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">John writes:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“<span style="color:black">Is there something that animals, or more particularly humans, can do which we can prove cannot be duplicated by a sequential machine?</span>”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p>A sequential computer program could simply be a loop that sampled random numbers and indexed into the address space of the computer program itself (not its memory). One could make a specialized computer using a FPGA that even had an instruction to do that
random dispatching. To counter the arguments of Penrose, one could do the same using quantum states.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781402078941" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781402078941</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>There are all kinds of physical processes that are simulated on classical supercomputers, of course.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>Marcus<u></u><u></u></p>
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