[FOM] H.N. from "Mathematical Cranks"

Timothy Y. Chow tchow at alum.mit.edu
Sun May 6 15:17:22 EDT 2018


On Sat, 5 May 2018, Alexander M Lemberg wrote:
> In fact, the Wikipedia article at
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwood_Dudley
>
> tells the story and has a link to the publication (12 pages):
>
> http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/transactions/WT1974/reference/wi.
> wt1974.wdilworth.pdf
>
> His name was William Dilworth.

H.N. is not William Dilworth.  There is a separate chapter in Dudley's 
book about Dilworth, and Dudley identifies Dilworth by name in the 
endnotes.  But Dudley does not identify H.N. in the endnotes.

I am happy to contact Underwood Dudley directly if someone can tell me 
how.  I was unable to find contact information for him after a casual web 
search.

Tim


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