I just realized that this story might be sound especially funny to PDMLers.
First, historical background: In Russia, the flagman institution in Physics education is Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), so-called PhysTech. The main way of getting to it is by a suburban train (about 25 minutes from the one of the main railway stations in Moscow). The station where PhysTech is located is called "Novodachnaya". A lot of people (students, faculty) usually get off at it in the morning from 2 trains that arrive there between 8 and 9am. The previous station, where seemingly nothing significant is located (and usually much fewer people use it) called "Mark". There is a legend that tells why that station is called that way. One of the famous professors, Mark Aiserman (a world-reknown specialist and an author of a textbook on analytical mechanics) was afraid to miss his stop, and so, he was asking all the students and colleagues who he saw entering the train to remind him about the station. And since he was always taking the train at the same time, even the train engineer knew that, and was announcing via PA system: "Mark, the next station is Novodachnaya" So, the previous station started being called "Mark". Cheers, Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
