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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!kepler1!andrew
  2. From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: Re: more math puzzles
  5. Message-ID: <1412@kepler1.rentec.com>
  6. Date: 15 Dec 92 22:58:54 GMT
  7. References: <24341@galaxy.ucr.edu>
  8. Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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  11. In article <24341@galaxy.ucr.edu> baez@ucrmath.ucr.edu (john baez) writes:
  12. >1)  Which famous mathematician wrote "The introduction of numbers as
  13. >coordinates... is an act of violence"?
  14.  
  15. Rene Descartes
  16.  
  17. Later,
  18. Andrew Mullhaupt
  19.