"Dear me, I have no idea what I was thinking when I put that problem in the book!"Heh.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
nick trefethen is funny
Interesting note - problem 21.5 in Dr Nick Trefethen's book "Numerical Linear Algebra" is hard. My prof assigned it to us on accident, but realized soon afterwards that it was basically an unsolved problem. He emailed Trefethen, asking him about the problem in his book, and Trefethen's reply was (almost verbatim)
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oh those zany academics
oh how funny
all the math problems you do are unsolvable
my unsolvable problem usually involves deciding whether to fold or crumple
You should tell Embree!
dear jesse, you should name your blog "things about me". love, mon and peter. :)
Don't you hate it when they do that?
grrr.
(He was probably hoping someone would solve it for him. Those profs. can be sneaky.)
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