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MATHEMATICS
matthias beck
department of mathematics
san francisco state university
1600 holloway ave
san francisco, ca 94132
(415) 405 3473
beck@math.sfsu.edu
on leave in spring 08:
mathematical sciences research institute
17 gauss way
berkeley, ca 94720-5070
(510) 643 6022
matthias@msri.org
"It is an important and popular fact that things are not always as what they seem. For instance, on the planet earth, man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much: the wheel, New York, wars. [...] But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than men; for precisely the same reasons.''
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