by Brian Hayes
Published 24 April 2006
I’ll be giving a talk at Towson University later this week. Details here. If you’re in the Baltimore area, please come by.
First publication: 24 April 2006
Converted to Eleventy framework: 22 April 2025
In remembrance of Martin Garner, 1914–2010.
As I kid I believed that retirement is wasted on the old, who no longer have the spunk needed to enjoy it. My views have changed as I’ve aged. So have demographic trends in employment.
How'd you like to be in charge of flipping mattresses in the Hilbert Hotel, which has infinitely many beds?
We could not form a set of eight matching glasses. But we could assemble eight glasses with no two alike. As I placed them on the table, I thought “Aha, Ramsey theory!”