Re: Q for readers of Russian.



Jim Spriggs wrote:
... or more precisely for readers of Russian who have Hairer and
Wanner's "Analysis by Its History" to hand. In Chapter IV Example 2.7
the text "light grey animal of the feline species" occurs and there is a
footnote to it in Russian or at least in Cyrillic script. 

DoeS aNyBody know what the footnotes says?  Since this is in the middle
of a discussion about "Hausdorff's Characterization of Continuous
Functions" it may be a joke about Felix the cat.


Felix was mostly black.

I don't have the book and my command of Russian is limited, at best,
but the reference might have been to the very old proverb, "In the
dark, all cats are gray." The proverb was mentioned in a 1546 book
and has been subsequently ascribed to French, English, Spanish, and
Vietnamese sources.

Regards,

Rick

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