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- From: michaelg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Michael Greenwald)
- Subject: Re: Well-known people who majored in math (other than mathematicians)
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- References: <1992Oct13.222457.11167@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <COLUMBUS.92Oct14092835@strident.think.com> <92288.113616RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> <1bk2sbINNcal@function.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: 15 Oct 92 16:26:44 GMT
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- In sci.math edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
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- >In article <92288.113616RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> <RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> writes:
- >>could someone at columbia go to the library and look up what art
- >>garfunkel's doctoral thesis was on? i'd be very interested.
- >>
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- >CLIO, Columbia's library listings accessible from the internet, does
- >not list it. Perhpas CLIO only goes back to a certain date...
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- Or perhaps Garfunkle didn't get a PhD? When I was in high school, I
- had heard that he had been a high school math teacher, but never heard
- any PhD stories.
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- On some sheet music (or maybe it was a record liner from one of the
- albums?) I recall a picture of Garfunkle in front of a blackboard. I
- think it was an elementary geometry proof, but he was pointing at some
- non-sequitors in one of the steps. I think it said something like
- "All that glitters is not gold". I don't remember the details.
-
- I'm sceptical about the PhD story, since I think they were essentially
- doing folk music full time pretty soon after college, so unless he
- were a Wunderkind, there wouldn't have been much time for a PhD.
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- Of course, I've been wrong before, and this should be easy to look up...
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