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I don't know of anyone who claimed at the time that it was.

Sigh. I wish I had had a blog then because I could then prove to you that I, at least did. Of course you didn't know me, but that's your own damn fault. :-)

Seriously, I still hear the same sentiment--"there ain't no goddman difference"--even now. And it's like, geez, did we really need to go through all this pain to prove there was and is?? Can't people just look at the voting records and the oversight committee work and donor lists and executive orders carefully instead of with the resolution of a 10-by-10 pixel screen?

But most of the voters are forgiven, at least in safe states like Cali & NY. I don't think I can forgive the ones in Florida though. And I don't think I can forgive Nader for misleading people about a lot of important stuff.

Nice post. An inadaquate appreciation, but I mean just that . . .Nice post. Hope everyone had a Happy Easter . . .from a cheerfully affectionate yet admiring nonChristian.

Hope you've got all the soup, soft blankets, and warm fuzzies you need.

Well, that's a nice starting list: Mathenauts, Arcadia, Fantasia Mathematica and The Mathematical Magpie , Jonathan Vos Post's exhaustive list of classics, and Sorority House by Frederik Pohl. I have to say that sequence does sound intriguing, Tom. I may have to go hunting for that. I think John is right, and the usual thing is to make the mathematics a MacGuffin. The Tespies killing Galois is a nice touch. Especially if they did it by making him fall in love.

Perhaps its time to write some then. . .
Thanks all!

Does anyone know of any really good mathematically oriented science fiction? Mathematics is always the thing that reaches forward the first, truly a little too far ahead of its time. And mathematicians make for such interesting characters, you'd think there'd be more of them out in the speculative canon--but perhaps I'm just ignorant? The image of time travelling spooks trying to fix the big book of proofs is too cool to pass up.

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