Works for me. On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:

Are you an analyst or an algebraist? If you're presented with a delicious butter-dripping corn cob to eat, how do you eat it? According to

http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-predicts-eating.htm...

your answers to these two questions are strongly correlated. For what it's worth, the alleged correlation works in my case; what about other munsters?

-- g

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On 9/21/2010 6:01 PM, Gareth McCaughan wrote:

Are you an analyst or an algebraist? If you're presented with a delicious butter-dripping corn cob to eat, how do you eat it? According to

http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-predicts-eating.htm...

your answers to these two questions are strongly correlated. For what it's worth, the alleged correlation works in my case; what about other munsters?

I'm a geometer, so I swallow the cob whole. Steve Gray

Interesting. I must be on the fence. I rate myself more algebraist than analyst based on the appeal of those disciplines to me, but the corn test considers me an analyst. I've very occasionally eaten corn in rows and found it reasonable :) In his informal description (reuse techniques vs. problem specific approach) I'm still on the fence but with a distinct leaning toward analytic. emacs vs. vi nails it in my case :) I like my (computer science) dissertation advisor's description of a mathematician as someone who is willing to work very hard at being lazy. - Scott

-----Original Message----- From: math-fun-bounces+scott.huddleston=intel.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:math-fun-bounces+scott.huddleston=intel.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Gareth McCaughan Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 6:01 PM To: math-fun@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [math-fun] Corn on the cob

Are you an analyst or an algebraist? If you're presented with a delicious butter-dripping corn cob to eat, how do you eat it? According to

http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-predicts- eating.html

your answers to these two questions are strongly correlated. For what it's worth, the alleged correlation works in my case; what about other munsters?

-- g

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