Words from the Graduate Institute, edited by Stafford Wood
There are moments in seminar when you feel like Archimedes and you’ve finally “Got it!” You never know when the moment might strike:
“Doing geometry without numbers was a major aha! moment” (Joseph Griego, MALA @ Santa Fe).
“In Lobschevski’s 18th theorem: He rotates an angle that, once moved, maintains its original inclination. This ability to move while staying equal was predicted in a previous essay of mine, so when I got to Theorem 18 I was doing backflips” (Ms. Amelia Wolfe, MALA @ Annapolis).
“I finally understood what Lobachevski must have meant by asserting that the sum of the angles of a triangle MAY be less than ??” (Peter Daub, MALA @ Annapolis).
