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- From: regeorge@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert E George)
- Subject: Re: Why don't we split the group?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.131313.6227@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:13:13 GMT
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- In article <4066@svin09.info.win.tue.nl> pwk@win.tue.nl writes:
- >For those who don't read this group about twice a day,
- >there are too much articles, of which some aren't interesting
- >enough.
- >My suggestion whould be to split the group even more
- >Currently we have:
- >sci.math
- >sci.math.num-analysis
- >sci.math.stat
- >sci.math.symbolic
- >sci.math.research
- >I would like to see:
- >sci.math.coding (with error correcting/cryptology/information theory)
- >sci.math.group (group theory)
- >sci.math.misc (whatever...)
- >sci.math.puzzles (well, puzzles appear sometimes)
- >and many more.
- >
- >Pieter Kuppens (pwk@win.tue.nl)
- >-----
- >Pi is about 3.2 if you want to calculate the earth's surface.
-
-
- I think we also need a sci.math.foundations (or maybe there's a better
- name) for issues related to logical thought, abstract arguments (e.g.,
- can we prove God exist). Such arguments are likely to be of intense interest
- to some and of no interest to others.
- Robert George
- (speaking only for myself)
-
- "The very essence of individual freedom is equal justice under a rule of
- law, a law to which every man shall be subject and which no executive
- can modify."
- Senator Robert Taft , March 11, 1944
-