Abstract:My undergraduate degree is in geology, and there are reasons for this. First of all, my foray into entomology (bugs) was ill-fated since I was squeamish around creepy crawly things. It took a year to ...My undergraduate degree is in geology, and there are reasons for this. First of all, my foray into entomology (bugs) was ill-fated since I was squeamish around creepy crawly things. It took a year to find this out, but that is another story. The switch to geology was natural as I had two older brothers (Jeff and Robert) already majoring in rocks. Unlike a real geologist, I tolerated fieldwork and microscope work and rock cutting work rather than embrace it. What caught my fancy was mathematics and physics, so I gobbled up all I could stomach. In all likelihood, graduation saved me from running into my math ceiling. We all have a limit to what we can understand in mathematics, and physics is just mathematics pointed at the universe. Later, in graduate school, I bumped the ceiling pretty hard—something called Lesbegue integration—and then took comfort in knowing my limits.Read More
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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