[Todos] Fwd: Informe sobre la corrupcion en Exactas - Parte 20 - addendum

[fabio vicentini]

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From: fabio vicentini <fmvicent en gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:09 PM
Subject: Informe sobre la corrupcion en Exactas - Parte 20 - addendum
To: "m.sniedovich en ms.unimelb.edu.au" <m.sniedovich en ms.unimelb.edu.au>
Cc: "D.K.Smith" <D.K.Smith en exeter.ac.uk>


Buenos Aires, November 21, 2013



Dear Moshe,

Subject: How to steal the idea and then kill the source.



I’m afraid you didn’t get the photo. Let me try again.



When I was a child I looked up to grown-up people with awe, I was impressed
by their serious countenance. My mother took me to church where monsignor
Tartuffe told me that God is three but only one true entity, contradicting
the arithmetic I was being taught at school.



Just out of the secondary school, I entered college where professor
Pangloss defined a real number by a schnitt in the set of rational numbers.
I did not grasp the definition and turned to my companions for help, but
they made me feel stupid since it was such an obvious notion.



Somewhere along the path to Damasco I realized that they didn't know how a
light bulb is made, and I started to smell a rat: Are they taking me for a
ride? Now I am a grown-up myself, and know how to be serious: I just put on
a solemn face, and pretend I understand what the hell is going on in this
goddamn world.



I spent 30 years as an OR practitioner in a dozen dirty, bad smelling
factories.  I never met a colleague there for they are doing research in
the Academy of Lagado up there over the clouds in the Kingdom of Laputa.
They are upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, and when
they will be done, they will write a paper and send it to a peer-reviewed
journal.



So then it occurred that I landed up in the Academy myself where I found my
colleagues teaching OR as it stood in 1950. Therefore I asked the math
chairman, to allow me to update the OR syllabus. And so it was, I changed
the matter over to Combinatorial Optimization. Hugo Scolnik and his wife
Irene Loiseau who were teaching the old stuff had to return to the Computer
Science dept where they belong.



Lo and behold! Now Mrs Scolnik discovered herself Combinatorial
Optimization and is lecturing the subject in the Computer Science dept. The
time is ripe to replace the old fool. And so it was, with a sleight of hand
Mr Scolnik made a disappearing act and Fabio vanished into thin air.



By the way, did you know that the magician was a vice-president of IFORS?.



Cheers

Fabio
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