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In a class I took once, the professor presented a theorem he was going to prove (I think it was "surface groups are subgroup separable"). He told us "the story
by hypersoar 13y ago
In a class I took once, the professor presented a theorem he was going to prove (I think it was "surface groups are subgroup separable"). He told us "the story goes that when the great mathematician, Serre, heard about this theorem, he was so surprised he dropped his fork".
Edit: fixed quotation marks
- StavrosK 13y agoI was going to throw a fit about that unmatched quote, but the second one canceled it out, phew.