Peter Sheridan Dodds, Theoretical Biology's Buzzkill
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 16:42
in Mathematics & Economics
There is an apocryphal story about a graduate mathematics student at the University of Virginia studying the properties of certain mathematical objects. In his fifth year some killjoy bastard elsewhere published a paper proving that there are no such mathematical objects. He dropped out of the program, and I never did hear where he is today. He's probably making my cappuccino right now. read more