This being my first time, I'm still a bit giddy from the fact that I received an invitation to the Gathering for Gardner next spring. Wow. I mean, more cool people than you can shake a stick with fractal branching at! Picture me lying awake nights trying to think of sufficiently interesting things to bring... (Er, I'm not entirely clear on the nondisclosure situation: it seems one is not supposed to talk about the G4G publicly beforehand, at least to some extent. I suppose it's in the nature of these you-don't-apply-we-just-invite-you events. So to be clear, I'm explicitly invoking the math-fun privacy agreement: this is private communication, do not forward or quote without permission, stuff like that.) Anyway, certainly some funsters are past participants, and the darn thing is expensive. Anyone out there planning to go and interesting in sharing a hotel room? --Michael Kleber -- It is very dark and after 2000. If you continue you are likely to be eaten by a bleen.
Mike: Do you know when and where it is? I might be interested in going. Who's putting it on? Maybe I could swing an invitation since I have published 1 (one!) paper in math so far, and I built a special-purpose computer which for a while was the world's fastest at Life. Tiny qualifications, to be sure, but........ Are you going to the Joint Meeting (AMS, MAA) in San Antonio? Steve Gray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Kleber" <michael.kleber@gmail.com> To: "math-fun" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 6:37 PM Subject: [math-fun] G4G7 This being my first time, I'm still a bit giddy from the fact that I received an invitation to the Gathering for Gardner next spring. Wow. I mean, more cool people than you can shake a stick with fractal branching at! Picture me lying awake nights trying to think of sufficiently interesting things to bring... (Er, I'm not entirely clear on the nondisclosure situation: it seems one is not supposed to talk about the G4G publicly beforehand, at least to some extent. I suppose it's in the nature of these you-don't-apply-we-just-invite-you events. So to be clear, I'm explicitly invoking the math-fun privacy agreement: this is private communication, do not forward or quote without permission, stuff like that.) Anyway, certainly some funsters are past participants, and the darn thing is expensive. Anyone out there planning to go and interesting in sharing a hotel room? --Michael Kleber
At 11:02 PM 12/6/2005, Steve Gray wrote:
Mike:
Do you know when and where it is?
OT: I was actually at the site of the first one at the time, and didn't know about it! I was tagging along with my first wife to one of her NCTM meetings in Atlanta. I was with her in the coffee shop and I overheard someone at the next table talking about Erdos' and Selberg's elementary proofs of the PNT. I thought that the discussion was much more advanced than what I heard at other teacher's meetings. Only later did I find out that it was a joint AMS/NCTM meeting, with the first G4G. Needless to say, I've always regretted missing it.
I won't be at the San Antonio meeting, but two of my pieces will be featured in the art show: http://www.fractalus.com/kerry/gallery15/km1.html http://www.fractalus.com/kerry/gallery16/scr1.html Kerry On 12/6/05, Steve Gray <stevebg@adelphia.net> wrote:
Are you going to the Joint Meeting (AMS, MAA) in San Antonio?
Hi Steve, As I understand things, it doesn't work that way -- access is tightly controlled, and you have to be tapped by one of the organizers; there's no invitation swinging. I know Elwyn Berlekamp is one of the centrally-involved mathematicians, but that's about it. --Michael Kleber On 12/6/05, Steve Gray <stevebg@adelphia.net> wrote:
Mike:
Do you know when and where it is? I might be interested in going. Who's putting it on? Maybe I could swing an invitation since I have published 1 (one!) paper in math so far, and I built a special-purpose computer which for a while was the world's fastest at Life. Tiny qualifications, to be sure, but........ Are you going to the Joint Meeting (AMS, MAA) in San Antonio?
Steve Gray
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Kleber" <michael.kleber@gmail.com> To: "math-fun" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 6:37 PM Subject: [math-fun] G4G7
This being my first time, I'm still a bit giddy from the fact that I received an invitation to the Gathering for Gardner next spring. Wow. I mean, more cool people than you can shake a stick with fractal branching at! Picture me lying awake nights trying to think of sufficiently interesting things to bring...
(Er, I'm not entirely clear on the nondisclosure situation: it seems one is not supposed to talk about the G4G publicly beforehand, at least to some extent. I suppose it's in the nature of these you-don't-apply-we-just-invite-you events. So to be clear, I'm explicitly invoking the math-fun privacy agreement: this is private communication, do not forward or quote without permission, stuff like that.)
Anyway, certainly some funsters are past participants, and the darn thing is expensive. Anyone out there planning to go and interesting in sharing a hotel room?
--Michael Kleber
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Thanks, Mike. I'll forget about it unless I hear otherwise. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Kleber" <michael.kleber@gmail.com> To: "math-fun" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:10 AM Subject: Re: [math-fun] G4G7 Hi Steve, As I understand things, it doesn't work that way -- access is tightly controlled, and you have to be tapped by one of the organizers; there's no invitation swinging. I know Elwyn Berlekamp is one of the centrally-involved mathematicians, but that's about it. --Michael Kleber On 12/6/05, Steve Gray <stevebg@adelphia.net> wrote:
Mike:
Do you know when and where it is? I might be interested in going. Who's putting it on? Maybe I could swing an invitation since I have published 1 (one!) paper in math so far, and I built a special-purpose computer which for a while was the world's fastest at Life. Tiny qualifications, to be sure, but........ Are you going to the Joint Meeting (AMS, MAA) in San Antonio?
Steve Gray
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Kleber" <michael.kleber@gmail.com> To: "math-fun" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 6:37 PM Subject: [math-fun] G4G7
This being my first time, I'm still a bit giddy from the fact that I received an invitation to the Gathering for Gardner next spring. Wow. I mean, more cool people than you can shake a stick with fractal branching at! Picture me lying awake nights trying to think of sufficiently interesting things to bring...
(Er, I'm not entirely clear on the nondisclosure situation: it seems one is not supposed to talk about the G4G publicly beforehand, at least to some extent. I suppose it's in the nature of these you-don't-apply-we-just-invite-you events. So to be clear, I'm explicitly invoking the math-fun privacy agreement: this is private communication, do not forward or quote without permission, stuff like that.)
Anyway, certainly some funsters are past participants, and the darn thing is expensive. Anyone out there planning to go and interesting in sharing a hotel room?
--Michael Kleber
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Steve Gray