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Well, I'm sorry, I couldn't see the connection. But then I can't follow TV soap operas either!

What is more accurate about his answer? (and how would you know?). I've even forgotten what my answer was, and what the question was, but I seem to recall that I answered every single question with absolute precision: yes, no, .... etc. and explained the reasoning.

I have every clue about them (though I hate geometry, and algebraic and differential geometry too - it makes me feel stuck in the 19th century).

I've probably forgotten more about it than most people will ever know.

As it happens I am not even slightly interested in that kind of space, but I could certainly read and follow a university text. But you are confusing knowledge and thinking - I keep telling you I know nothing and yet you harp on about ignorance, as though you do not hear me say it.

If I were to say "you are ignorant, like me", that would be a compliment. I certainly try not to know anything. I have never comemented on the knowledge displayed by the OP, but on the logic (good) and logical judgment (bad). This is not impolite - it is helpful. When your piano teacher tells you that your posture is not appropriate, do you think he is insulting you, or helping you?

Are you the OP? A backup is not a solution, but a precaution. If you are not prepared to take it then you are not interested in avoiding risk.

There is something deeply wrong with your logic here!

I believe that you are confusng "backup" and "copy". I think you must be imagining that I am saying "copy" when I am saying "backup". Please try and hear properly!

I have no techcical proficiency. But I, apparently unlike you, can THINK properly.

Savvy?

I generally find that when a person confuses knowledge with ability or capability, that they are not a thinking person and they have some kind of idea that other people KNOW some TRICK that if only they would just let slip to them then they would become just as capable as those other people that get on so ..

Wrong! There is no trick, and there is nothing to KNOW. There is just thinking.

Your problem is that you are stuck in the mire. You think that everyone else is like you, getting by on what they KNOW, and grabbing for more KNOWLEDGE. No - they aren't.

I have never taught differential geometry, but then I never ever had studied most of the university math courses I taught. Teaching it makes one learn it! When I was teaching at university, I always longed to be given a course to teach that I was actually good at, or at least thought I KNEW! It practically gave me a nervous breakdown having always to be able to THINK just that fraction faster than even the very best of the students, without even having had the benefit of studying like the very best, or having tried their question before. And they were very good - I remember in my second teaching year I was giving the algebraic number theory course to students who were only two years younger to me, and among them was Richard Taylor, who would later get the Fields medal with Andrew Wiles for the FLT solution. He asked me a question that still makes me shiver, and which I had to defer answering while for two weeks I struggled to find an elementary demonstration for it (I found that Hardy & Wright had a demonstration using sieves that I could not give him, because sieves were not treated till postgraduate times ..). I managed an original demonstration for him, and as I recall it revolved (it was probably unprovable which it was, but either case led to a construction for the main result I wanted).

Every time I met a question I started fresh.

No, it will not.

And may your pants ever be too tight.

Peter