Absence of Mind
Anon
Genre: | Anecdote |
Subjects: | Mathematics |
An anecdote of a gentleman of Magdalene College, Cambridge, who was found 'absorbed in some abstruse calculation' with his watch in a pan of boiling water and looking at the egg in his hand. | |
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