A college education

Paul R. Halmos
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Paul R. Halmos: University of Santa Clara, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 2 in I Want to be a Mathematician, 1985, pp 20-35 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The train ride from Chicago to Champaign took a little less than three hours; it cost $4.56. Champaign and Urbana are twin cities, some times called Chambana. The University of Illinois is mostly in Urbana, but when you’re there you can’t tell where you are—you cross the street and you’re in a different town. The two city administrations manage to live together well enough, but sometimes they generate confusion. In the days before the Uniform Time Act, for instance, it could happen, and it did, that Champaign would adopt Daylight Saving Time one summer but Urbana would not. If you were invited to dinner at 7, you usually had to make one extra telephone call to make sure what time you were really expected.

Keywords: Analytic Geometry; White Hair; Advanced Calculus; Valid Syllogism; Tutoring Agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-1084-9_2

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