27 Mar
2017
27 Mar
'17
2:41 p.m.
From: Doug McIlroy
As Erdos would say of a particularly elegant proof,
"It comes from the
Book," i.e. had divine inspiration.
Just to clarify, Erdos felt that a deity (whom he referred to as the 'Supreme
Facist') was unlikly to exist; his use of such concepts was just a figure of
speech. 'The Book' was sort of a Platonic Ideal. Nice concept, though!
Noel