FOM: Conway's foundational ideas; pointing fingers

Martin Davis martin at eipye.com
Fri May 21 13:22:35 EDT 1999


At 12:32 PM 5/21/99 -0400, simpson at math.psu.edu wrote:

>Please don't worry, I can stand the heat. 

Steve can, but the rest of us can't. My personal reaction to Steve's style
is to get angry at Steve. I suspect I am not alone. This is not conducive to
my thinking through whatever light Steve may be shedding on the situation.


                           Martin Davis
                   Visiting Scholar UC Berkeley
                     Professor Emeritus, NYU
                         martin at eipye.com
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