/sci/ - Science & Math

Skip ahead a few years (and already-free articles) to 1968. K is a newly minted PhD and getting going with teaching. Then after all his boundary functions stuff, he writes a simple little piece about digits of numbers, part of a series of such articles (various authors) in Mathematics Magazine during the sixties, inspired by a problem in Hardy's Mathematician's Apology (which Hardy himself disdained as un-serious mathematics), and later taken up by Lara Pudwell in same journal, about ten years ago.

It is THIS article which inspired the humorous "better known for other work" footnote used by Pudwell.

This is K "having a bit of fun" after his serious work. As I've already written in this thread, K's math work divides into the "serious" boundary functions stuff, and the "fun" short articles and challenge problems. What I'm posting now is effectively the latter work.

Apart from the above "official" Jstor link, There IS also a free, stable link to this piece HERE

https://zariski.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/2689056.pdf

Basically this is sitting on some korean's math blog, and has been there for some years. It should remain there for some time, but one never knows.

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