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Gian-Carlo Rota, 18.313

nehrlich@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nehrlich@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 2 12:44:54 1993

"These definitions, like many math definitions, are almost vacuous.
The definitions are the only things from which you can't learn _anything_.


"This doesn't matter to us because it is intuitively obvious.
Only professional mathematicians bother to belabor the obvious."

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