tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post1338967772248507898..comments2023-11-05T03:45:25.001-08:00Comments on God Plays Dice: Something I learned from Jeopardy!Michael Lugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15671307315028242949noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-36261576445941566772008-05-07T00:22:00.000-07:002008-05-07T00:22:00.000-07:00Re the t in Fermat. Having spent time as a grad st...Re the t in Fermat. Having spent time as a grad student in both math and physics, my observation is that mathematicians are slightly more, uh, "focused", about pronunciation.<BR/><BR/>Physicists would only correct the person they were talking to; mathematicians would break into other people's conversations in order to defend the purity of the language. It must have something to do with the sloppiness of the use of language in physics.<BR/><BR/>After I learned some Cantonese, I discovered that the mathematicians weren't doing a very good job of pronouncing the names of their Chinese colleagues! What a scandal!CarlBrannenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17180079098492232258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-58402274189933317552008-05-06T18:00:00.000-07:002008-05-06T18:00:00.000-07:00I hadn't heard of the Fermat Prize, but the Turing...I hadn't heard of the Fermat Prize, but the Turing Award is said to be the Nobel Prize of computer science. We have the most recent Turing award winner comming to speak at my school in a few weeks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com