http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/the-wedding-invitation-that-nearly-killed-andre-weil.html lieven le bruyn's blog Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:45:28 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/the-wedding-invitation-that-nearly-killed-andre-weil.html/comment-page-1#comment-8390 Omar Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:53:37 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/?p=2186#comment-8390 <p>The 1999 strike at UNAM in Mexico City ended with plenty of student activists thrown in jail, among them a friend of mine. While he was in jail he wanted to keep current with homework assignments for the differential topology course he was taking when the strike started (mostly to have something to do, I guess). So he had his brother bring him Guillemin and Pollack and the list of assignment questions, but the prison officials didn't let him have them! They said the math was coded messages.</p> The 1999 strike at UNAM in Mexico City ended with plenty of student activists thrown in jail, among them a friend of mine. While he was in jail he wanted to keep current with homework assignments for the differential topology course he was taking when the strike started (mostly to have something to do, I guess). So he had his brother bring him Guillemin and Pollack and the list of assignment questions, but the prison officials didn’t let him have them! They said the math was coded messages.

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