Chomsky and Counting FYI : Correction.

[Michael Cohen]

Chomsky may be rusty on the math score perhaps
but he is no slouch.  Chomksy is the inventor of mathematical
formal language theory including with Maurice Schutzenberger

1.    Chomsky heirarchy
2.    Popularization of Transformational Grammer.
3.    The Pumping Lemma
4.    Chomsky Normal form
5.    Many different Grammatical theories all involving math to some
degree or

        another.

If Chomsky chooses not to use quantitiative math in his work its because

he think the point is easier made otherwise or he is biased.  While he
personally
stopped doing math fairly early, to my extemely rusty knowledge he's
more competant
than most, mostly in mathematical logic.  Just another one of the mans
many
accomplishments.

                                 --mike
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