People
giving
oratory
with the
express
intent
of
motivating
the
audience
can
often
be
heard
requesting
levels
effort
of
greater
than
100
%. They are not in
error
(as is so
often
thought
). All
students
of the most
advanced
and
complex
mathematics
are
required
to
give
talks
during a
two
year
enforced
sabbatical
. The
subjects
are
often
topics
such as
screen
writing
success
and
pyramid
selling
to
remind
them how the
non
-
academic
world
functions
- they
just
can
'
t
help
throwing
a few
mathsy
"in"
jokes
in that the
rest
of
us
hear
as
meaningless
buzz
words
.
Christopher Honan
Tuesday, 18 September 2007