I need a good talk title
Andrew Koenig
ark at alice.UUCP
Wed Aug 31 22:58:50 AEST 1988
I once heard that the great mathematician David Hilbert
was invited to give a talk on any subject he liked
during the early days of air travel. His subject:
The Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Needless to say, his talk was eagerly anticipated.
The day arrived, the talk was given, and it was brilliant --
but it had nothing at all to do with Fermat's Last Theorem.
After the talk, someone asked Hilbert why he had picked
a title that had nothing to do with the talk. His answer:
``Oh, that title was just in case the plane crashed.''
--
--Andrew Koenig
ark at europa.att.com
More information about the Comp.lang.c
mailing list