Hopefully it wll make it to NZ in time for Christmas.

I was unaware of the distinction between hyphen, en dash, and em dash until I read the excellent "The Mac is not a Typewriter" in 1990. I imagine everything Knuth writes would get flagged as well. He has an excellent explainer in the TeXbook. I wonder how many LaTeX users observe the distinctions.

This would be a reasonable main.

Is that price a typo?

I don't disagree about Seymour - I don't like him either - but nor did I care for this kind of pile-on.

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I for one welcome the opportunity to generate artwork of this quality while on the move.

This reminded me a bit of the 1959 :Field and Stream" review of "Lady Chatterley's Lover".

Personally I found the physicist's treatment of delta functions the hardest to understand, until I found out about Schwartz distributions. This from Follland's book on QFT is good.

Oh come on, pull the other one. This may be jolly interesting if you like that sort of thing, but it has nothing to do with tourist perceptions, and any value to the economy is certainly not clear to me, although the value to society is at least arguable.

Courant and Robbins have a nice short proof in "What is Mathematics".

ChatGPT is very informative. I learnt about the Gelfond-Schneider theorem from it.

I'm with Anscombe on the compatibility issue.

Ah right, from "Modern Moral Philosophy". I'd totally forgotten that bit. I was wondering if you had this in mind.