While carpenters were working outside the old house I had just bought, I busied myself with indoor cleaning. I had just finished washing the floor when one of the workmen asked to use the bathroom.
With dismay I looked from his muddy boots to my newly scrubbed floors. Just a minute, I said, thinking of a quick solution. Ill put down newspapers.
Thats all right, lady, he responded. Im already trained.
Charles Louis FeffermanBorn 18 Apr 1949.American mathematician who received the Fields Medal in 1978 for his work in mathematical analysis. As a child prodigy, his accelerated schooling reached B.S. degrees in physics and mathematics by age 17 and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University at age 20 (1969). By 1971, as a professor at the University of Chicago at age 22, he was the youngest full professor ever in the U.S. Two years later, he returned to Princeton as a professor (1973). His Ph.D. dissertation was on “Inequalities for Strongly Regular Convolution Operators.”His field of study includes his interest in physics - applied mathematics in vibrations, heat, turbulence - though he is best known for his theoretical work.« |
