14 Mar
2011
14 Mar
'11
11:46 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Still, all excited about this formula, I told it to my freshman advisor, Henry McKean, on the first day we met. He casually reached over to his bookshelf, and after flipping a few pages showed me the identical formula in Whittaker an Watson from 70 years earlier. You've never seen an MIT freshman's bubble burst so quickly.
Whenever that happened to me, I was just glad that I was on the right track! -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com