Timeline for How to respond to "I was never much good at maths at school."
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| Mar 1, 2015 at 10:33 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | other experiences of MO users at the immigration office: mathoverflow.net/questions/178104/… | |
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| Nov 14, 2009 at 7:43 | comment | added | Jose Capco | Interesting. I had the same experience flying from Dubai to Frankfurt. The costums in Dubai told me "So you can definitely calculate the square root of a big number".. I just laughed at that. | |
| Nov 13, 2009 at 19:03 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | I've had funny experiences entering the UK, that way, too. Once at customs after saying I'm in the UK to give a few talks and visit some mathematicians, the customs agent asked "What is your talk about?" taken aback, not sure exactly what to say, my response was "embedding spheres in spheres". She let me go after that. | |
| Nov 13, 2009 at 19:00 | history | answered | Dmitri Panov | CC BY-SA 2.5 |