14 Aug
2012
14 Aug
'12
9:02 a.m.
I heard recently a (possibly apocryphal) story about a mathematician who gave co-authorship on a math paper to a dead (non-mathematician) friend. Apparently the friend came to him in a dream & helped him get to the answer. Perhaps someone here knows more about this story? At 07:51 PM 8/13/2012, you wrote:
I actually dreamed about Herb a few months ago. In my dream, I told him about some recent mathematical discovery of mine (I no longer remember what) that I thought he'd like. He replied that, being dead, he no longer found math interesting.