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For those interested in the original source, one of the replies [0] links to [1] which says that you can find the letter in Applied Mathematics by Farlow & Hagg
by Cogito 6y ago
For those interested in the original source, one of the replies [0] links to [1] which says that you can find the letter in Applied Mathematics by Farlow & Hagggard (Pub. Random House, 1988) p613.
> "There is a nice letter from the Carnation canning company which is reproduced in Applied Mathematics by Farlow & Hagggard (Pub. Random House, 1988) p613 on why cans do not adopt this optimal shape."
0: https://twitter.com/theohonohan/status/1235646988357701632 https://twitter.com/theohonohan/status/1235646988357701632
1: https://plus.maths.org/content/comment/8352#comment-8352 https://plus.maths.org/content/comment/8352#comment-8352
- wodenokoto 6y agoDoes that mean the twitter account is either Farlow, Haggard, or just somebody posting things as their own?
- hombre_fatal 6y agoA cursory scan of their twitter account shows that it's the latter.
- dandanua 6y agoAlso they reposted the story wrong, assuming cans were short.
- kemayo 6y agoThe tweet-author being the original letter-recipient is not necessarily inconsistent with them also having forgotten exactly what they suggested 35 years ago and just substituting in a general sense of what current cat food cans are like. Particularly since they'd be, you know, 84.
- Zancarius 6y agoI feel kind of stupid reading this since I sometimes (often?) forget the exact details of things I've written just 3.5 days ago (!).
- CrazyStat 6y agoWhat makes you say that? I skimmed through a couple pages of tweets and it seems consistent with the twitter account belonging to Farlow. Somewhat surprising for an 84-year-old math professor to have an active twitter account, but not out of the question.
- CrazyStat 6y agoStrong evidence that the account is indeed Farlow: the profile links to a pinterest board [1] which is listed by the NCTM [2] as being run by Farlow. [1] pinterest.com/mathematicsprof [2] https://www.nctm.org/tmf/library/view/75908.html https://www.nctm.org/tmf/library/view/75908.html
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoIt would be a strong evidence if the linking were the opposite way. If I link to the potus piterest page from my twitter page, it would not mean anything.
- CrazyStat 6y ago> if the linking were the opposite way. the linking goes both ways: the pinterest page also points to the @mathematicsprof twitter handle.
- gostsamo 6y agoThank you, I really hate when people post an image of text and consider themselves smart for shortcutting normal posting.