Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] In Math, Computers Don't Lie. Or Do They?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> I think that most critisism of Cantor and Einstein is NOT motivated by
> anti-semitism.  Cantor's ideas and Einstein's ideas have the following
> things in common:
>
> 1.  They are apparently understandable by the layman;
> 2.  They are actually quite counter-intuitive;
> 3.  At some level they are also rather subtle.
>
> I do not find it surprizing that people think they have found flaws in
> these theories.


Thanks.  You make a lot of sense.
But it also seems that some Einstein/Cantor critics are frankly psychotic.

Mike
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