Coincidence
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"If you appreciate this sort of thing [odd indices}, I recommend Hazel Bell's compilation Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction, which is much less pedantic than it sounds.
[edit:] One anecdote it omits is the circular reference to a fellow mathematician in the classic Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces."
Oddly enough, I had a copy of Professor Halmos' great work but a few feet away and was able to verify this rather academic piece of humour. Something to be said for keeping old text books?
addedentry:"If you appreciate this sort of thing [odd indices}, I recommend Hazel Bell's compilation Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction, which is much less pedantic than it sounds.
[edit:] One anecdote it omits is the circular reference to a fellow mathematician in the classic Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces."
Oddly enough, I had a copy of Professor Halmos' great work but a few feet away and was able to verify this rather academic piece of humour. Something to be said for keeping old text books?
