On 6/1/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The list is just as legitimate as any other list of two intersecting
groups is (we no doubt have "List of French mathematicians" around
somewhere, same idea). It's just the *descriptive note* at the top
that makes it seem... not quite right.
No?
It's a consequence of the endless debates about these various lists of
Jews that have been raging since the dawn of wikitime. It's to counter
the criticism that "how can you incontrovertibly declare that
so-and-so is Jewish?"
--
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com