Friday, May 25, 2007

Typo of the arbitrary time period

is this, from the blurb of a book on demographic problems in Poland, the country (God's own, naturlich) where Roman Gietrych is an angel, and Alicia Tysiac a demon:

"Poland has entered a phase of disadvantageous population trends. Still, morality in Poland is much higher and average life expectancy much shorter then in the EU countries[...]"

I like the correlation there.

Sunday, May 06, 2007

The troublesome Riemann was clever
In focusing people's endeavour
Until such a time
As we find the last prime
For when, we know n=never

I am no longer likely to update this blogue, having (since my return to England) forgotten about it until yesterday. But if you subscribe to it, I guess you'll know if it ever comes alive again. Thanks to those of you who put up with, enjoyed or someotherhow engaged with it, it made the being elsewhere better.

The above is a tribute to Martin Huxley, of whom I only know that he likes to write mathematical limericks, which is quite enough for me. A Hero.