integers

akman@cs.bilkent.edu.tr (Varol Akman)

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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 93 16:31:53 +0200
From: akman@cs.bilkent.edu.tr (Varol Akman)
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Subject: integers

Sorry to disrupt the serious tone of all those wonderful discussions
in this list (I read them with great interest) but I couldn't resist
to follow up on the following remark of John Sowa:

>The 19th century mathematician Kronecker found such
>definitions rather repulsive, and he made the remark "God gave us
>the integers -- all else is man made!"

I heard another (fun) version of this.  It goes as follows:

	"Man made the integers.  All else is Dieudonne."

-Varol Akman