🚀 go-pugleaf

Note has been made on an error in terminology in the obituary of
Daniel Gorenstein in the New York Times.  I would have expected, in
this forum, that the first error to have been noticed would be that
the article appeared to credit group theory for proving the
impossibility of squaring the circle.  The classification of finite
simple groups doesn't need the support of irrelevant mathematical
accomplishments.  Also considering the recent front page treatment
given to "the president on the left didn't say what the president on
the right said that he said", the use of the E. T. Bell version of
Galois was somewhat inappropriate.
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