Re: [math-fun] Letter from Grozny

On Aug 3, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Fred lunnon wrote:

But I can't help feeling that it is a great shame he could not have devoted just a few weeks of his 30 years to reading this wonderful book, from which he might just have actually learnt some beautiful and useful mathematics; instead of which, he seems frozen in a state of perpetual numerical infantilism. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing ..."

We have a saying in biology -- six months of work in the laboratory can save you an entire afternoon at the library.