Posted on 11/27/2007 7:00:02 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
I got the link to this article from this Peter Woit blog entry: Not Yet About Geometric Langlands.... Woit took Math 55, but doesn't remember it being quite as tough as this article makes it out to be.
And a Cauchy in a pear tree...
I can balance my checkbook. I am fascinated by this kind of intelligence.
I can balance my checkbook. I am fascinated by this kind of intelligence.
It's all in the wrist...(grin)
Harrison looks surprised. “You’re clearly not one of us,” he says. Litt begins to count the numbers in his head. “Only 11. Wow.”
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yeah but he’s actually calculating pi in his head
Yeah, bet they can’t last two weeks posting on FreeRepublic.
Cheers!
Right, he’s cheating...
I did a couple of years of math and physics at Harvard, but I confess this is out of my league.
And I find that I only remember pi to 13 places.
First class of the 2nd term, and there are two female students in the class nobody had seen before. A bit younger than us, but we didn't say anything.
The prof was going through the derivation of the generating equation for the associated Laguerre polynomials (or somesuch), and the new girls' eyes were getting wider and Wider and WIDER.
Finally, one of them raised her hand and timorously asked, "This isn't freshman Chemistry 101, is it?"
"No."
We decorously waited until they had left the lecture room to share a good laugh.
Cheers!
Was Lisa Randall a '55er?
No data on that. Was she a Harvard undergrad?
Yeah, bet they can’t last two weeks posting on FreeRepublic.
(laugh) It might be fun to read an opus from one of those guys, though...
how to develop this intelligence...
...check her figures.
...integrate her manifold.
...commute her operators.
...renormalize her.
...locate her poles.
...differentiate inside her integrals.
Cheers!
I’ve got pi to 25 decimal places. But that’s not really much of a mathematical accomplishment; it’s simply memorization. I don’t begin to understand number theory or some of these concepts. To be fair, I’ve never looked into them much. But differential equations was as far as I have ever needed to go in math.
And I find that I only remember pi to 13 places.
That'll do for government work...(grin)
That, sir, is a funny story!
we know someone who might enjoy this class. good read.
Count me in...
They’d like to but the authoritative wikipedia says none of her theoretical work has yet been confirmed by experiment.
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