Tuesday, July 20, 2004

What's eccentric about that ?

From the Fields Medal citation for Tim Gowers:

Banach was an eccentric, preferring to spend his time in the café rather than in his office in the University of Lvov

sounds reasonable to me...

2 comments:

  1. You are forgeting that he did not have wireless network in the cafe.

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  2. Umm... not having wireless might have been the actual reason he preferred the cafe.

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