Re: Totally OT - Mark!

2011-03-06 Thread Boris Liberman
On 3/7/2011 8:58 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Boris, It is a famous story known by all (most) phystechs in 1980's-1990's. I heard it first time around 1987. You can read one of the descriptions of that story (in Russian), e.g. here: http://www.nasha.lv/article.php?id=555190&date=24-5-2005 As I des

Re: Totally OT - Mark!

2011-03-06 Thread Igor Roshchin
Boris, It is a famous story known by all (most) phystechs in 1980's-1990's. I heard it first time around 1987. You can read one of the descriptions of that story (in Russian), e.g. here: http://www.nasha.lv/article.php?id=555190&date=24-5-2005 As I described in an earlier message, - in response

Re: Totally OT - Mark!

2011-03-06 Thread Boris Liberman
On 3/6/2011 8:05 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: 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 stud

Re: Totally OT - Mark!

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Roberts
Larry Colen wrote: >On Mar 6, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: >> >> I just realized that this story might be sound especially funny to PDMLers. > >That's hilarious. > >I'm also amused that being curious about this story, I tried to do a google >search to get more information, and most o

Re: Totally OT - Mark!

2011-03-06 Thread Igor Roshchin
Sun Mar 6 18:27:46 CST 2011 Larry Colen wrote: > On Mar 6, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > > > I just realized that this story might be sound especially funny to > > PDMLers. > > > > That's hilarious. > > I'm also amused that being curious about this story, I tried to do a >

Re: Totally OT - Mark!

2011-03-06 Thread Larry Colen
On Mar 6, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > I just realized that this story might be sound especially funny to PDMLers. > That's hilarious. I'm also amused that being curious about this story, I tried to do a google search to get more information, and most of the hits I got were f

Re: Totally OT - Mark!

2011-03-06 Thread Steven Desjardins
LOL On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > Yeah. > > On Mar 6, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > >> Thats a great story! >> ann >> >> Igor Roshchin wrote: >> >>> I just realized that this story might be sound especially funny to PDMLers. >>> >>> >>> First, historical backgrou

Re: Totally OT - Mark!

2011-03-06 Thread Eric Weir
Yeah. On Mar 6, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > Thats a great story! > ann > > Igor Roshchin wrote: > >> 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 M

Re: Totally OT - Mark!

2011-03-06 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Thats a great story! ann Igor Roshchin wrote: 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

Totally OT - Mark!

2011-03-06 Thread Igor Roshchin
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