<div dir="auto">I accept the compliment. Add that to Nick calling me a Cartesian and John Baez calling me a logician and I feel that I've made it.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In Baez's book, Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity, he says that 1x1 real matrices are real numbers. When I explained to him why that isn't true he said, "Only logicians care about that."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Frank</div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 8:47 AM Prof David West <<a href="mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm">profwest@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Nick used to spread a scurrilous rumor that I was a Libertarian. (Of course, I retaliated with a rumor of his mysticism.)<br>
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Reading this:<br>
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<a href="https://therabbitisin.com/the-pythagorean-illuminati-and-their-mathematical-reality-a207ee952d30" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://therabbitisin.com/the-pythagorean-illuminati-and-their-mathematical-reality-a207ee952d30</a><br>
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made me wonder if FRIAM harbors a number of Pythagorean Illuminati. Nick, Marcus, Glen, Frank, and Jon come immediately to mind; based on my voluminous research of key words and phrases in their various posts.<br>
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Just saying ...<br>
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davew<br>
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