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.
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