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> the potential for confusion between plane // airplane This reminds me of the famous (possibly apocryphal) story of the algebraic geometer of middle eastern d
by l33t2328 4y ago
> the potential for confusion between plane // airplane
This reminds me of the famous (possibly apocryphal) story of the algebraic geometer of middle eastern descent who was brought aside by Air Marshals for talking about how a particular problem could be solved by “blowing up points on a plane”
- wbl 4y agoAt Berkeley the legend is that there was a class on blowing up with special application to local problems.