3 ms·
I learned about Apostol's death from a post by a very astute mathematical biologist, Lior Pachter, who was once a student of Apostol's. The post is "The Ice Cre
by tokenadult 10y ago
I learned about Apostol's death from a post by a very astute mathematical biologist, Lior Pachter, who was once a student of Apostol's. The post is "The Ice Cream Cone Proof,"[1] which nicely illustrates Apostol's brilliance as a teacher.
[1] https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/the-ice-cream-cone-proof/ https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/the-ice-cream-c...
- abecedarius 10y agoI'm sad; I had him for the same course Pachter describes. One time he lectured on the prime number theorem, just for entertainment: he didn't prove it, but got deep enough to rather blow me away. Here's a more recent elementary talk of his: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mamikon/VisualCalc.html http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mamikon/VisualCalc.html