Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Math News
The New York Times wrote an interesting article this week Elusive Proof, Elusive Prover: A New Mathematical Mystery about how a reclusive Russian mathematician solved a 100 year old math problem about the topology of 3 dimensional space called the Poincare conjecture. Slate explains why this is important.
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