A good friend pointed me to the start of a
recent New York Times article:
In the early years of the 20th century, the great British mathematician
Godfrey Harold Hardy used to take out a peculiar form of travel
insurance before boarding a boat to cross the North Sea. If the weather
looked threatening he would send a postcard on which he announced the
solution of the Riemann hypothesis. Hardy, wrote his biographer,
Constance Reid, was convinced ''that God -- with whom he waged a very
personal war -- would not let Hardy die with such glory.''
A MadMath salute to G.H. Hardy!
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