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12 Life Lessons From Mathematician and Philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota

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Roger Frye-4

12 Life Lessons From Mathematician and Philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota

https://fs.blog/2021/02/gian-carlo-rota/

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Stephen Guerin-5

Re: 12 Life Lessons From Mathematician and Philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota

Great lessons

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021, 7:12 AM Roger Frye <[hidden email]> wrote:

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Re: 12 Life Lessons From Mathematician and Philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota

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Hm.

A - Most researchers who take their work seriously will put in the extra effort to ensure it’s well presented.

B - Don’t worry about small (contingent) mistakes.

That smacks of either a contradiction or a resolvable conflict. Though perhaps there's some wiggle room in the "most researchers". There exist some researchers, who take their work seriously, yet who don't worry about small mistakes. Or perhaps there's wiggle room in "well presented". "Well presented" doesn't (necessarily) exclude (all) small mistakes.

I'm sure I'm alone, here. But in the end, ethical, aphoristic, vague heuristics like these are nearly useless. They speak to those who are pre-adapted to hear them. The rest of us spin around asking "What does *that* mean?!?!" And "what does *that* mean!?!"

On 2/9/21 6:11 AM, Roger Frye wrote:
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Stephen Guerin-5

Re: 12 Life Lessons From Mathematician and Philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 12:32 PM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[hidden email]> wrote:

The rest of us spin around asking "What does *that* mean?!?!" And "what does *that* mean!?!"

What does "what" mean? Does what do what what does? what ever.

Steve Smith

Re: 12 Life Lessons From Mathematician and Philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota

What You Missed That Day You Were Absent From Fourth Grade

Brad Aaron Modlin

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The English lesson was that "I am" is a complete sentence.

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redacted/elided for brevity, I was reminded of this line of this poem by this discussion.

the full text including a reading: https://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=2261

On 2/9/21 12:36 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 12:32 PM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[hidden email]> wrote:

The rest of us spin around asking "What does *that* mean?!?!" And "what does *that* mean!?!"

What does "what" mean? Does what do what what does? what ever.
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