27 Mar
2017
27 Mar
'17
9:50 p.m.
On 27 March 2017 at 08:41, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783662442043
N.
From: Doug
McIlroy
As Erdos would say of a particularly elegant
proof, "It comes from the
Book," i.e. had divine inspiration.
Just to clarify, Erdos felt that a deity (whom he referred to as the 'Supreme
Facist') was unlikly to exist; his use of such concepts was just a figure of
speech. 'The Book' was sort of a Platonic Ideal. Nice concept, though!