Re: [math-fun] Finding other people

On 20/05/2017 01:34, Allan Wechsler wrote:

Larry Niven constantly has his characters doing the moral equivalent ... going somewhere they think is obvious, or doing something they think their separated colleagues will notice. I have to say I was skeptical of this as a plot device, too. The chances that I would end up on the Empire State Building while my friend loiters around the Statue of Liberty, or the like, seem very large.

On that specific example, Mosteller remarks that the SoL is likely to stop looking like a plausible candidate as soon as one discovers how difficult it is to get to. (I know that's changed since Mosteller wrote his book, but not exactly how.) -- g