/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11126390
Georgia Tech. One time in Predrag's class, the topic of gefilte fish came up. Though I like it, I don't like how it looks. I made a comment, "It looks so gross!" Predrag said, "Woah, woah! Hey now. It's getting a little anti-Semitic in here."

Predrag also once told that me when he was much younger he was working on a very difficult problem which after some period of years he discovered the problem was exactly equal to the Riemann hypothesis. He said to the class, "So if you ever find that your research has brought you to a place where you're trying to prove RH, my advice to you is to change research directions." Glad I didn't take his advice!

Predrag is also the one who first explained to me how Feynman generalized the classical action to the quantum theory. He did it in about two minutes as an irrelevant aside during a lecture about something else. I've never see it explained anywhere as well as he did in those two minutes. Smart man! This is one of the reasons why I say there is no substitute for lectures from genuine subject matter experts: the stuff they tell you that isn't in the book is priceless.

http://chaosbook.org/