On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:16 -0800, Bob La Quey wrote: > One night I was studying at a table in the commons romm > of our college and Carruth McGehee, who is now a > professor emeritus of mathematics at LSU, looked > up and said to me, "Bob, did you know that 'the polhode > rolls without slipping on the herpolhode lying in the > invariant plane?'" > Footnote in Goldstein's Mechanics, 3rd ed. p. 202 > > Not often remembered is Goldstein's droll introdcution, > "Hence the vaguely Jabberwockian statement ... " > > Odd, how some things stick in our minds.
Bob, you make my head spin. (Does this mean I'm an egghead?) Anyway, if you program something successfully, you can be reasonably sure that you have formulated the problem completely, without any face-saving handwaving. Christoph -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
