Dec. 6th, 2008

sigmonster: Highly zoomed in portion of a Julia set (a fractal image in the complex plane). (Default)
Academic incest coincidence of the day: my cousin will be taking a class taught by our mutual grandfather next term...

She's 18; he's 90. His grad students are starting to retire! It's absurd! I love him.

Speaking of longevity, my other grandfather is dead, but I met him as a child. And when he was a child, he met his great-uncle, who was at Waterloo (as I heard it, a drummer-boy aged about 12).

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