on last bit of silliness: check out http://web.media.mit.edu/~walter/mattuck.html
-walter On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Ron Feigenblatt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/29/13, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: >> John Nash was a good friend of my algebra professor at Harvard, George >> Mackey, my mentor at MIT, Marvin Minsky, and my daughter's diff eq. >> professor at MIT, Arthur P. Mattuck. And I have a cousin who lives in >> Paris. And my son has been to Giza.... >> >> -walter > > In an age when atoms rather than bits ruled the world, I listened to > Prof. Mattuck in 10-250. At long last one knows why the words > inscribed on MIT's building 10 (and 7) always use "V" for the letter > "U". It never made sense that English words would use a Latin > alphabet! (Happy belated beaVer Day.) Anyway, it's comforting to know > that Templar riches can be tapped if Sugar Labs ever runs short of > funds. - Ron <silliness mode="off"> -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
