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- From: mstoecke@AFIT.AF.MIL (Michael G. Stoecker)
- 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> <michaelg.719166404@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 11:06:04 GMT
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- In article <michaelg.719166404@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> michaelg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Michael Greenwald) writes:
- >From: michaelg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Michael Greenwald)
- >Subject: Re: Well-known people who majored in math (other than mathematicians)
- >Date: 15 Oct 92 16:26:44 GMT
-
- >In sci.math edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
-
- >>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.
- >>>
-
- >>CLIO, Columbia's library listings accessible from the internet, does
- >>not list it. Perhpas CLIO only goes back to a certain date...
-
- >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.
-
- >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.
-
- >Of course, I've been wrong before, and this should be easy to look up...
-
- I recall a story in Sports Illustrated (I think) within the last few years
- about Art Garfunkel "walking" across America. I think it mentioned an
- advanced degree (beyond B.S.), but I don't recall what degree and in what
- discipline. He has had plenty of leisure since his heyday with Paul Simon
- to complete a degree or two.
-
- Mike
-