Sunday, May 01, 2005
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I was tickled to see the quote on page 173 is by Paul Erdös: "Problems worthy of attach prove their worht by fighting back." Now, I'm fairly sure Stephanie doesn't know all that much about Erdös (she even left the umlauts off), but I still think it's cool he's in there! My Erdös number (last I checked) is 3. :) Um, yep, still looks like 3.
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cool. one of my profs worked with him!!
Neat. :) He was very prolific... and very strange. ;)
that reminds me, I think I have a video "N is a number" all about Erdos. And yes,...he seems to have been a 'character' of sorts.
[blush] I was too lazy to do the umlauts without LaTeX.
I use a mac, so getting umlauts is easy: <option>-u then the letter. None of this stupid memorizing numbers stuff you need on Windows. :P
Hmmm... I haven't seen that video. I've just heard lots of stories about him. ;)
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