Posted on 05/08/2016 7:27:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
An Ivy League professor says his flight was delayed when a fellow passenger mistook his scribbling on a math problem as a sign he might be a terrorist.
American Airlines confirms that a woman expressed suspicions about University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio.
He was flying from Philadelphia to Syracuse on Thursday to give a talk at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. He was working on a differential equation, but said he was told the woman thought he might be a terrorist because of what he was writing.
Casey Norton, a spokesman for the air carrier, said the women’s allegations about Menzio were deemed not credible.
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Everything was fine until he had to start incorporating imaginary numbers into his equation . . .
Bet she is really good at balancing her checkbook.
“Whadda ya mean I’m out of money? I still have checks left!”
Why would you think this is a bogus story? There are many ignorant people around.
Clever.
In 520 B.C., a bunch of Pythagoreans threw a guy off a boat when he proved the existence of irrational numbers.
Math is a terrible thing.
Embraced,get real......Idiots like her need more than embarrassment
That’s the conclusion I came to, as well. Trump has overtaken the mantra “Bush’s fault!” used by the left and the MSM so frequently.
He was very good at integral and differential calculus.
And knew the scientific names of beings animalcules.
And about binomial theorem he was teeming with a lot of news
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
Nowadays that kind of thing can get you arrested.
Embraced..... Whoops spell check embraced me aka embarrassed
It appears he had a protractor, a compass, calculator, and a ruler. Airline officials were naturally concerned about a passenger carrying implements of math instruction.
Albert Einstein (not Guido Menzio :)
If you see sum thing, say sum thing. !!
LOL! It just happened to me on another thread and when I tried to correct it, it happened again! I knew what you meant.
Damn spell check!
Nope, just the influence of the Religion of Peace(TM), but hey, thanks for the endorsement.
Just for that, I’m reporting you to the moderators ..
And who can forget the ability of integral calculus to find the area under a curve?
“He laughed because those scribbles weren’t Arabic, or another foreign language, or even some special secret terrorist code. They were math.”
Actually partial differential equations have a lot of scary Greek symbols in them.
It is in certain quarters of the US. To wit, the entire Democrat party, 95% of black America, most of the soccer moms, and I’m going to guess that those streaming over the southern border are unfamiliar with Rhiemann.
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