Abstract :
In principle, this could be a four-word essay because the short answer is, "no, of course not!" Indeed, my asking the question entails a slight personal risk: I certainly don\´t want to alienate my friends who are numerical analysts. I\´ve worked happily, if not exactly in, then certainly someplace near the field of numerical analysis for many years. I\´ve even taught it (not a guarantee against being boring, I know) and coauthored a book on one of the field\´s many active subareas.
