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- From: dob@ccr-p6.ccr.jussieu.fr (Dominique BERNARDI p3512)
- Subject: La Vie, Mode d'Emploi (Was: math in non-fiction)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.142835.9788@jussieu.fr>
- Summary: Perec not guilty.
- Sender: dob@ccr.jussieu.fr (Dominique Bernardi)
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- Organization: Universites P. & M. Curie / D. Diderot
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:28:35 GMT
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- In article <Bwt3AM.8Gs@unix.amherst.edu> mkrogers@unix.amherst.edu (MICHAEL K ROGERS) writes:
- >In "La vie, mode d'emploi" by Georges Perec there is a proof
- >(of sorts) that the degree of the composition of two homogenous
- >maps is the product of the degrees of the two maps. The
- >symbol for composition is a zero (0) and not a little circle.
- >So is it that the narrator mistakes the small circle for
- >a zero or is it the author's own ignorance? Not that it matters....
-
- I just checked my copy of the book, and the error
- is not there. So I suppose the ignorance is not
- the author's or the character's, but the publisher's.
-
- Dominique Bernardi.
-