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October 26, 2014

Coming to Terms

Antoni Zygmund once asked if the World Series shouldn’t be called the World Sequence? And shouldn’t a combination lock be called a permutation lock? John Von Neumann once had a dog called Inverse. It would sit when told to stand and go when it was told to come. Von Neumann pronounced the term infinite series as infinite serious. — Michael Stueben, Twenty Years Before the Blackboard, 1998 – Futility Closet

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 26, 2014 4:13 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put."- Winston Churchill

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