Fruitful collaboration.

Jun 28, 2009 21:30


Peter Woit:

Earlier this week I learned from my colleagues one obscure piece of mathematical culture that I had been unaware of. Physicists have the famous story of how Alpher and Gamow brought in Bethe as co-author to improve the author list [of a paper], but it turns out that mathematicians have a somewhat different story of this kind. At ( Read more... )

funny, clippings

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kragen June 29 2009, 06:40:08 UTC
...and this is why, when undergraduates at Princeton were polled about the grad students, the top two adjectives they chose were "sketchy" and "weird".

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