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Re: Last mathematician?



On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Maurice Barnhill wrote:

Asimov wrote a similar story. In his, arithmetic has been reinvented
and a proposal is made to train spaceship pilots to navigate without
using computers. The idea is not to install expensive computers in
spaceships that might be destroyed in war, thus saving resources. The
story is quite funny.

kifer/belk wrote:

Can't remember the title, but it's one of Asimov's earlier stories, just
as you describe. Part of the story (at least) is in his anthology titled
"Opus 100". I recently gave the book away, along with many others, so I
can't readily check it for the title.

-- Donald

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Dr. Donald E. Simanek
dsimanek@eagle.lhup.edu http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek
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