Arithmetic geometry
There are only two kinds of people, those who read A. A. Milne and those who read J. S. Milne, that’s all.
There are only two kinds of people, those who read A. A. Milne and those who read J. S. Milne, that’s all.
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I owe this maxima to the ethernal Oscar Wilde and to James Milne’s autoreferencing joke. You really shouldn’t credit it as mine, but you are welcome to do so.
Actually I hope to be in the second category, sooner or later. I read J. S. Milne, but I cannot consider myself a mathematician, not even mentioning being an arithmetic geometrician, not yet. When I’ll put my name into the mathematical genealogy, I could use that name to refer to myself.
I obviously don’t despise A. A. Milne and I feed the hope to have one day a peluche of Eeyore, because we share many things. Indeed we are both old, pessimist, cynical donkeys with some presumptions as to our philosophical capabilities.
Comment by Chopinhauer — 27/2/2005 @ 12:52 am
io, nessun dei due…
Comment by nushu — 2/3/2005 @ 12:29 am