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Tom Apostol was my freshman math prof. He made math a useful tool for me. He was a great teacher. Thanks so much, Tom.
by ridgeguy 10y ago
Tom Apostol was my freshman math prof. He made math a useful tool for me. He was a great teacher. Thanks so much, Tom.
- kurthr 10y agoI only saw Apostle smile once. It was Gauss' birthday, which he always celebrated in April with a cake. It had the Flux Theorem (Divergence to Surface Integral), and I got the "dx" labeled piece. I complained that he had given me the smallest piece, and saw just the hint of a curl to his lips. Hopefully, the "useful theorem"* didn't die with him... *Apostle always referred to the useful theorem when proving problems in class... if you could figure it out, you were done.
- ridgeguy 10y agoCheck out page 212, 1969 Big T (lower photo). Big smile. But yeah, didn't see that very often. Upper photo of him on that page is amusing also. [1] http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechCampusPubs:20111101-153546791 http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechCampusPubs:20111101-15354...
- kurthr 10y agoI am tempted to believe that Lloydies had something to do with that 8^O...
- CurtHagenlocher 10y agoWe live for those we love and die.
- CamperBob2 10y agoThat's actually a really cool link. Lots of photos of prominent CalTechers like Feynman and Gell-Mann that I haven't seen before (along with some of the former's artwork.) I love the photo on page 219 of the engineering prof with his shiny new Tektronix 453 oscilloscope, which would have been exotic as hell back then. It's hard not to laugh at the idea of lighting up a smoke in a lab today.