Is true. I did a tiny bit of the circuit design on the router discussed there. I had no idea who Feynman was (“a famous physicist”—so what! MIT is full of them) and thereby missed the opportunity to learn from him. I was such a conceited idiot I probably couldn’t have anyway…
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Yeah, I also wrote a half-assed compiler that was never used, and some other stuff, but found the place sufficiently dysfunctional during its initial few months that I mostly did my own thing and ignored the company, which was in bad form.
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Uh, yeah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Handler … I won’t say anything specific because she’s probably a very different person now.
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On a highly positive note, David Mumford was there that summer—
@St_Rev may know of him—and he was extremely kind and decent to me despite my being a total dickhead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mumford …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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I ran into him again ten years later—I can’t imagine in what circumstances—and he remembered me (!) and said something like “that was a crazy time, wasn’t it? I have no idea what that was all about.” I remember we had a nice discussion of sundials.
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I also had no idea who he was or why at the time, and realized only much later that he’s a Significant Dude.
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His Red Book (https://www.amazon.com/Red-Book-Varieties-Schemes-Mathematics/dp/354063293X …) was an important touchstone for the algebraic geometry students when I was in school. I never got the hang of algebraic geometry myself, despite years of study.
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Whoa! Here’s a story I didn’t know (featuring Mumford at various points). Can’t someone write a heavy metal opera about romantically doomed and tormented mathematicians? Actually, why isn’t there a feature-length movie of the last days of Galois?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._P._Ramanujam …
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