From: Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 5 Best Sf
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:57:35 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Jan 9, 2006, at 10:52 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>   "I have never done anything 'useful.'  No discovery of mine has
> made,
>   or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the
>   least difference to the amenity of the world...."
> -- Godfrey Harold Hardy, one
>   of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century.
>

Of course, Hardy turned out to be wrong.  Number theory turns
out to be very important in certain lines of work.  They do a lot of
it in certain governmental institutions in the area, you know.

And, the properties of the zeta function seem to be related
to eigenvalues of random matrices.  Quite mysterious.

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow