> Sebastian Rahtz wrote -- > > > i have written many articles as an archaeologist and computer > > scientist (mosty of them very bad), and I have (I think) never used a > > mathematical formula. > > Only in the UK could an educated person seriously make such a statement > in public. In more cultured parts of the world it would be like > boasting that you cannot write grammatical sentences. An interesting view. I read it as a statement about the fields of endeavour that Sebastian partakes in (which didn't contain any news for me). I'm a mathematician by training (and first love ;-), but now practice in computer `science'. The mathematics in things that I publish is likewise vanishingly small. I've published nothing (for ages) that wasn't produced using LaTeX. However, I don't believe arguments about whether mathematics is the defining property of a TeX-processed paper get us anywhere. No mathematician (who knows about disproof by counter-example) can seriously make any such claim, surely? Robin