SPUG: The Stick Riddle, with a Twist

Creede Lambard creede at penguinsinthenight.com
Fri Jan 3 14:56:43 CST 2003


On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 12:09, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> This misses the point of the story.  IIRC, the professor was asserting that
> mathemeticians are mystics since they believe in the square root of -1.
> Asimov was defending mathemeticians by pointing out the equal "unreality"
> of 1/2.

As I said, it's been a very long time since I read the story. Thank you.

> -- 
> Creede Lambard <creede at penguinsinthenight.com>
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