Apparently, the artist Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was embarrassed by the size of his laryngeal prominence. Mr. Rockwell felt, it’s said, that his Adam’s apple protruded unduly, and had been known to take steps to cover it up in public. [pictured right] But possible academic implications of this have remained largely unstudied in scholarly circles – […]
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Mathematical Embarrassments
From Dick Lifton’s blog (thanks to Peter Haas for bringing it to our attention): Terry Tao is one of the greatest mathematicians of our time…. Today I want to talk about a topic that he has discussed: mathematical embarrassments—the name is mine, but I hope he will agree with spirit of this term…. A mathematical […]