Sunday, July 5, 2009  A Brief Ode To Stewart's Calculus-
NOT.........................  I just read a really funny post at
Ars Mathematica and had to share it with all of you with
commentary. Apparently, the question's come up with what
McMaster's University's self-made gazillionare James Stewart did
with all his royalites from the infamous calculus book every
other university's department uses. Apparently, he built a
gigantic house with his own personal concert hall in the middle
of it. You don't believe me? See for yourself :  This was so
he-a trained violinist-could perform with his friends in the
privacy and comfort of his own mansion. Talk about hubris worthy
of being struck down by the Gods with the Ceres
asteriod.Apparently the only way Stewart's fragile self esteem
could make it as a violinist in a concert hall was to have one
built for himself where he'd be the star of the show every
single night...............LOL Sigh. Only in America would that
seem like a logical action and not a gigantic excess of