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Article #2021Re: Academic legend (was Re: Answers...)
From: Alex Lopez-Ortiz
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 20:14
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 20:14
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In article <1990Feb1.084329.23934@agate.berkeley.edu> gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes: > >>I heard this story told at Oxford, where it was said to have happened at >>Cambridge. At Cambridge, do they tell it of Oxford? > > This is definitely a Legend. Not at all, actually, a few years ago I was at a conference, and the lecturer was talking about some measurable spaces, and proving this and that, at the end of the lecture one of the attendants asked for an example of such a space, and the lecturer haven't one, later on that day it turned out that no such measurable space exists. Moral : Never attempt an induction without working out the first 4 values. Alex
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!violet!alopez-ortiz From: alopez-ortiz@violet.waterloo.edu (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: Academic legend (was Re: Answers...) Message-ID: <20433@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 1 Feb 90 20:14:34 GMT Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: alopez-ortiz@violet.waterloo.edu (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 17