Lunch with a professional mathematician of the older generation. He told stories about 20th-century mathematicians. Lefschetz? “Yes, I met him. Can’t truthfully say I shook hands with him, though.”
(Solomon Lefschetz had no hands.)
Lunch with a professional mathematician of the older generation. He told stories about 20th-century mathematicians. Lefschetz? “Yes, I met him. Can’t truthfully say I shook hands with him, though.”
(Solomon Lefschetz had no hands.)