{"id":1865,"date":"2006-05-12T21:54:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T05:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2009-07-09T08:31:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T16:31:54","slug":"my-inflated-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1865","title":{"rendered":"I could get a swelled head"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone wrote to me out of the blue with a mathematical question. Though the statement of the problem was not clear enough for me to solve it, I told him how I’d approach it, and he was happy.<\/p>\n

I asked how he found me.<\/p>\n

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Anton, I was surfing the web, some site came up — cant recall which one, it listed you as a respected expert, <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

which was the best laugh I’d had all day.<\/p>\n

Since the problem had to do with sphere packing, perhaps he found a link to my (loosely related) spherical arrangements<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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