innumeracy

jf noonan jfn1 at msc.com
Tue Oct 13 08:57:47 PDT 1998


On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Max Sawicky wrote:


> > Unfortunately, some Marxists can be as bad (if not worse). EK.
> > Hunt told me
> > the story of a grad student at UC-Riverside who encountered what at the
> > time was considered to be Marx's mistake in the presentation of the
> > so-called "transformation problem" in vol. III of CAPITAL. This student's
> > response: it's not Marx's mistake; the problem was with bourgeois
> > mathematics.
>
> I guess if math can be bourgeois, then
> E=mc-squared can be sexist.
>
> MBS

Did everybody see the ad on page 13 of the 28-Sep issue of The Nation?

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Joseph Noonan jfn1 at msc.com



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