"It is better to be
approximately right
than exactly wrong"
It's better to retire early than wait for a
"double dip on the sunshine coast"
no noblesse no oblige
no funds no postdocs no papers?
"freedom is just another word for no job left to lose"
me and Bobby McGee?
I do multi-dimensional Riemannian
metrics, not one-dimensional research performance
metrics (there is probably an app for
bean-counters!)
M. Min-Oo (retired)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1
CanadaOffice: 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.