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Cool to see the mention of Andrew Thomason! He was my supervisor/tutor for several undergrad courses, as well as lecturing a couple of the courses I took over t
by n4r9 3y ago
Cool to see the mention of Andrew Thomason! He was my supervisor/tutor for several undergrad courses, as well as lecturing a couple of the courses I took over the years. He had a brilliant Yorkshire accent, and if I remember rightly he enjoyed eating Walkers crisps and making good use of Fellows' privilege to ride their bike on college grounds. I actually had no idea that he had a seminal result on Ramsey numbers, and in the same year I was born no less.
- curiousgibbon 3y agoThomason is a phenomenal lecturer, and clearly a great mathematician. It was kind of crushing when he called my Part III essay "pedestrian".
- mauricioc 3y ago> He had a brilliant Yorkshire accent There's a talk of his on YouTube for anyone curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8BNIohtyMQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8BNIohtyMQ (it's unrelated to Ramsey theory but also very interesting).