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M. Min-Oo (retired)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1
Canada
Office: Hamilton
Hall, room 313
Phone: (905) 525-9140
extension 23429
FAX: (905) 522-0935
E-mail: minooATmcmasterDOTca
Brief CV
1967: B.Sc., Univeristy of Rangoon, Burma
1973: Diplom (Mathematik), University of Bonn,
Germany
1976: Dr. rer. nat., University of Bonn, Germany
1985: Habilitation (Mathematik), University of
Bonn, Germany
1986 Associate Professor, McMaster University,
Canada
1989 Professor, McMaster University, Canada
2015 Retired (voluntarily, but not that
happily!)
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Qual e 'l geometra che tutto s'affige
per misurar lo cerchio, e non ritrova,
pensando, quel principio ond'elli indige, tal era io a
quella vista nova:
veder voleva come si convenne l'imago al cerchio e come
vi s'indova;
ma non eran da cio le proprie penne: se non che la mia
mente fu percossa
da un fulgore in che sua voglia venne.
A l'alta fantasia qui manco possa; ma gia volgeva il mio
disio e 'l velle,
si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa,
l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
Dante
Alighieri
Translation:
As the geometer who sets himself to square
the circle and who cannot find,
For
all
his
thought,
the principle he needs, just so was I on seeing this
new vision
I
wanted
to
see how our image fuses into the circle and finds
its place in it,
Yet
my
wings
were
not meant for such a flight
Except
that
then
my
mind was struck by lightning
Through
which
my
longing
was at last fulfilled.
Here powers failed my high imagination, but by now my desire and will were turned,
Like a balanced
wheel rotated evenly,
By the Love
that moves the sun and the other stars.
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