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June 2nd, 2016
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| 11:59 am [Link] |
"I see we have one more today" Хорошее http://mathoverflow.net/questions/5 ...Levi-Civita was teaching a course in a room on (what Americans call) the second floor of a building. One day, as a prank, his students "borrowed" a donkey from one of the fruit vendors on the street in front of the building. Somehow, they brought this donkey up the stairs into the lecture hall and had it standing there as Levi-Civita entered to begin his lecture. Levi-Civita set his notes down on the lectern, looked up at the class, commented "I see we have one more today," and proceeded with his lecture. Привет Current Mood: |
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| 01:32 pm [Link] |
by violence, or force of arms? Оттуда же When the logician Carnap was immigrating to the US, he had the usual consular interview, where one of the questions was (and still is, I think): "Would you favor the overthrow of the US government by violence, or force of arms?". He thought for a while, and responded: "I would have to say force of arms..." Current Mood: |
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