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- From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Relatives with Crackpot Proofs
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 08:15:40 -0500
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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- There is a new book called MATHEMATICAL CRANKS by Underwood Dudley.
- [Actually, the book is quite entertaining.]
- He has some suggestions of the proper way to deal with "fermatists",
- as he calls them, and other cranks. But I don't think he relates
- any cases of a cranky relative.
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