I heard this story a couple of years back (not sure though if it is true): A young Japanese mathematician was giving a talk based on his results at Courant Institute. His work was built on the work of S.R.S VardhanVaradhan. But apparently during the talk Vardhan Varadhan had his eyes closed and the speaker mistook it for him sleeping. He made a joke by saying somthing like "hopefully not everybody is sleeping". A few minutes later Vardhan Varadhan open his eyes and said "consider this counterexample". But Vardhan Varadhan liked the speaker's idea and invited him to spent some time at Courant institute. The correct result is now known as 'Speaker'-Vardhan Speaker'-Varadhan theorem.
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I heard this story a couple of years back (not sure though if it is true): A young Japanese mathematician was giving a talk based on his results at Courant Institute. His work was built on the work of S.R.S Vardhan. But apparently during the talk Vardhan had his eyes closed and the speaker mistook it for him sleeping. He made a joke by saying somthing like "hopefully not everybody is sleeping". A few minutes later Vardhan open his eyes and said "consider this counterexample". But Vardhan liked the speaker's idea and invited him to spent some time at Courant institute. The correct result is now known as 'Speaker'-Vardhan theorem. |
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