Ilya Zakharevich wrote: > [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to > Martin Gregorie > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>], who wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Its in "A Short History of Time". Sorry I can't quote chapter or page, >> but a friend borrowed my copy and lent me Dawkins "Climbing Mount >> Improbable" before vanishing, never to be seen since. Not an equal >> exchange: I preferred ASHOT to CMI. > Oops - I should have written "A Brief History of Time". It was the first edition, so I don't know if it was altered/edited out of later versions.
> I would prefer a reference to a peer-reviewed paper. ;-) > Sure, but I don't think you'll find one. It was in a descriptive, rather than rigorous, passage. But then, the book famously had only one equation in it. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list