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Article #5503Re: Language illiteracy
From: Herman Rubin
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1988 12:16
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1988 12:16
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In article <8088@ames.arpa>, eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya) writes: > The problem is that people (myself when I was younger) don't see editing > as a language, drawing as a language, mouse movements as a language (now I see). An even bigger problem is that most people, including many mathematicians, are unable to see that mathematics is an absolutely essential language _if you are considering non-routine situations_. -- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907 Phone: (317)494-6054 hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (ARPA or UUCP) or hrubin@purccvm.bitnet
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!k.cc.purdue.edu!l.cc.purdue.edu!cik From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Language illiteracy Message-ID: <765@l.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 30 Apr 88 12:16:13 GMT References: <786@trwcsed.trwrb.UUCP> <8088@ames.arpa> Distribution: na Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department Lines: 12 Summary: What about mathematics?