Re: You Don't Have to Be Nuts to Be a Mathematician ...

From: Van Jacques (calccurve-test23_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: 13 Jul 2004 06:11:05 -0700

LOL. Its true! As one who spent some time in the nuthouse myself,
I can vouch for it from experience. And some of the people I worked
with were crazier than me.

One of my first experiences with faculty; our institute (HAO/NCAR)
had nominations for the best paper that year by someone at the
institute.
I nominated someone who had written a paper that had clarified
things for me.
When my neighbor, who had been on my thesis committee when I was
doing my thesis, found out, he came in very angry, wondering
why I had not nominated his paper.
This is the same guy who had said that my thesis was a rehash of
his research--which was not true, not by a long shot.

Oh well. I guess it takes all kinds.

Van

Robin Chapman wrote:
> Eckard Blumschein wrote:
>
> > A behavior
>
> Behaviour
>
> --
> Robin Chapman, www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~rjc/rjc.html
> "Lacan, Jacques, 79, 91-92; mistakes his penis for a square root,
88-9"
> Francis Wheen, _How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World_

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