On 10/21/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ian Halliday wrote: > > > UNORTHODOXIES: Most mathematicians have had the following experience > > and those whose activities are somewhat more public have had it often: > > an unsolicited letter arrives from an unknown individual and contained > > in the letter is a piece of mathematics of a very sensational nature. > > I've had this experience, myself, and I'm not even a professional > mathematician. I once had this experience with a guy who purported > to prove that the function > > f(z) = z > > is NOT ANALYTIC. > *and Mike's story continues*
That's a pretty neat story Mike. It's amazing how stuborn some people can be. And you made me drudge up branch cuts from my memories of Complex Analysis in college. That was a fun class. _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
