> -----Original Message----- > From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > He won a tournament at college and came home proudly with the medal he > > earned. > > > > His stern and studious father reacted - in Yiddish. > > > > "" > > This, a medal? > > > > Mathematics is a medal! > > "" > > > > Yiddish equally tough as boxing, if not more so. > > > Guess I'm stuck in the same groove as grandpa, a bit. > > > > Art > > > > Or were you the guy who got hit? >
Certainly not by Dad, who was (and is) the gentlest of men. But I hit and got hit along the way. Being in the smart kids track, we tended to attract the attention of bullies. Having been born with boxing gloves in my crib, I was not ill-equipped to defend myself and my friends. Though I certainly took a few shots along the way. But of course this was in the days before one had to concern oneself with whether one's fifteen year-old adversary might be carrying a weapon. As you well know, my tendency toward pugilism has not disappeared - just evolved. For example -- I have been until now resisting sparring with you as to Fullerian geometry. There seems to be an obsession with regularity - in the Euclidian sense. Rigid motions of regular shapes - and in that sense it always seems to me to represent a pre-modern (non-Kleinian) conception of geometry. So whereas our interests, obsessions seem to have some commonality - it is always interesting to - as well - trade some shots, over what appear to be our differences. Though perhaps here is not the place. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
