"I do graph theory." I say, assuming by his question that he knows something about math. "Oh!" he sounds excited, "So you're a sports mathematician?"

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"Don't look for them." I insist. "How can I talk about graphs if nobody here trusts me? Math is about trust, and you lot got none of it in you."

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"Hey," I say to the driver, "That lady is pretty nice looking. Maybe after you drop me off you should come back here and try to talk to her."

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I step out of my office to fill my water bottle.  I see two students walking down the hall, one holding a shiny pair of brass knuckles down under an armful of books.   "Hey, Mr. Kim, what

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Professor Lee comes to my office.  He is new in the department.  Fresh like a baby.  He is applied, but his math is strong, and we have high hopes for him. "What it the strangest place you&

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"Those are the slides of a homeless man!"

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In the middle of Alan Frieze's talk, Mathias pulls out a gum and sticks it in his big mouth. Takuro Mochizuki, in his talk, refers to a result about flat bundles as 'deep'. I

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I head up to Seoul for the ICM, the International Congress of Mathematics. I'm nervous. Both Lee Sang-june, and his life-long crush, Ben Green, will be there. Dr. Green is a plenary speaker, and Sang-june is

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