By Doron Zeilberger
This is an almost exact transcript of a
colloquium talk
that
I
gave at Columbia University on Feb. 17, 2010.
The abstract warned that people who would be offended by a talk
that they could actually understand should not come.
It seems that there are lots of such people,
as only
nineteen people showed up. But I believe that those people who
skipped the talk would be offended by any talk, whether or
not they had any chance of understanding it, that is not exactly in their
narrow specialty. The Tower of Babel has gotten out of hand.
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Written: March 4, 2010.
Exclusively published in the
Personal Journal of Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger
and arxiv.org .
Added March 10, 2010: read
interesting comments by Francois Bergeron .
Added April 6, 2010: read
Murali K. Srinivasan's elegant note .
Personal Journal of Ekhad and Zeilberger