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Poor Great Old Man
entropy@pawl.rpi.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus)
(science, chuckle)
Paul Erdos, currently most prolific mathematician in history,
is always making jokes about how old he is. (He says, for example,
that he is two and a half billion years old, because in his youth
the age of the Earth was known to be two billion years and now
it is known to be 4.5 billion years.)
He observed one day that the audiences at his talks had been getting
larger and larger, to the point where they filled halls so big that
his old and feeble voice could not be heard. Erdos speculated as
to the cause of this.
"I think," he said, "it must be that everyone wants to be able to
say 'I remember Erdos; why, I even attended his last lecture!'"
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