After facing a writers block for almost
over a year X decided it was time to introspect. The problem was fairly simple.
If he wrote about things appreciated at the mathematical center in Amsterdam
his colleagues at Eindhoven University of technology didn't appreciate it and
vice versa. He then decided to write only for himself, and in this way the EWDs
were born. X was known for his habit of carefully composing manuscripts with
his fountain pen. The manuscripts are called EWDs.
Apart from his job he also served as a
chairman for the fictional company Mathematics inc. ( a company that he
imagined having commercialized the production of mathematical theorems in the
same way that software companies had commercialized the production of computer
programs)
EWD 443 (1974) describes his fictional
company as having over 75 percent of the world's market share.
I'd this lunatic who started his career as
a theoretical physicist.
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