I know Erdos was at Berkeley in 1965 when he used to hang out in the Math Library where I worked. I don't think he sat on a curb on Telegraph Ave. A bus would have run over his legs.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Mar 3, 2021, 9:45 AM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Jon - > > I'm not entirely sure of the timing, FrankW may have some input on this, > but I believe that Erdos visited Berkeley many times during some of PK > Dick's most fecund/fetid years... this makes me wonder if they sat on > curb on Telegraph sharing a bottle of MD-2020 now and then, swapping > ideas like this one... > > > https://www.dailycal.org/2018/03/04/phillip-k-dick-berkeley-retrospective/ > > FWIW for SF geeks, Ursula Le Guin graduated from Berkeley HS with PK > Dick but never knew him until they both became well known... > > On 3/2/21 11:44 PM, jon zingale wrote: > > "Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a > year's > > time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue > > five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and > > within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens > demanded > > the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no > choice > > but to launch a preemptive attack." > > - Paul Erdős > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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