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From: gupta@mrspock.mt.att.com (Arun Gupta)
Subject: Re: No employment available for mathematician/genius/programmer(LISP)
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In article <3gfmqu$qam@cnj.digex.net>, Chris Long <clong@cnj.digex.net> wrote:
>In article <3geqbg$2g2@openlink.openlink.com>, Robert Elton Maas wrote:
>
>>I got straight A's in mathematics from 3rd grade through college,
>>placed top five nationwide in the William Lowell Putnam math contest,
>
>If I were hiring, I'd hire you based on this alone, regardless of any
>other information (unless it was extremely negative, like stealing from
>work).  It shows an unusually powerful talent for problem-solving, which
>in my experience readily adapts to just about any task.  Of course, I
>might then fire you if you turned out to be a slacker or something.  :)
>
>The first person who hires this guy is probably going to be rather
>happy they did.

Since I was familiar with somebody who used to hang-out in the grad.
student dorm. at the univ. where I studied; and this somebody was once
a very promising mathematician, Putnam and all, I wouldn't do what you
would.  

-arun gupta
>-- 
>Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ  08807-2618
>http://www.webcom.com/~clong
>
>Score: 0, Diff: 1, clong killed by a Harvard Math Team on  1


