[HM] So young...

Jim Propp (propp@math.mit.edu)
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:26:12 -0500 (EST)

I once heard an anecdote about how a certain senior mathematician X,
on seeing a certain younger mathematician Y walk past, confided in
colleague Z his candid opinion of Y: "So young, and yet he has already
accomplished so little."

Who are X, Y, and Z?

Jim Propp
Department of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin