Re: ? -- JSH related

From: E. Xavier (xideum_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: 21 Oct 2004 10:58:32 -0700

[Tim Peters]

> don't hesitate to start a thread about a math topic that interests
you,
> even if you feel it's elementary. Any on-topic post should be
welcomed.
> For example, insist that even numbers are all divisible by triangles,
and
> then fight unbelievers to the death <winK>.

Thanks. That does make me feel a great deal less intimidated.
Hopefully, my next post will be on topic and pusillanimous enough to
avoid a deathmatch.

> He says he has a bachelor's degree in physics (and my best guess is
that he
> does), but I haven't seen an academic claim beyond that. If the math
is
> good, or at least interestingly wrong, nobody here really cares what
anyone
> else does for a living, and it's impolite to ask <wink -- I'm a
computer
> geek>.

You're right about it being impolite to ask. I really shouldn't have.
Because he'd almost been published in a journal (no small feat), I had
the notion that Mr. Harris was a professor somewhere but wasn't sure.

Thanks for all the responses, everyone. The story of JSH is just so
intriguing, especially when found within a subject commonly thought to
be dry.