But when you got to explaining about affine Hecke algebras, he just said "That's, like, so much more than I needed to know!" [By the way, who is this fellow Apna Bazar, and why does he hide behind non-mathematicians --- is he into hurling?] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koornwinder_polynomials WFL On 6/30/19, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:

in front of Apna Bazar (sic). I told him about Tom Koornwinder, but I think that's more about winding than vending. —Bill _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun