I have proven the Riemann Hypothesis.

Saturday, the temperature in Seoul and Hanam hit The Other 0 Degrees: Fahrenheit. I spent a good solid day working and reading in the apartment. Well-spent, I say. Yet today is the first day it snowed my whole trip. It's also the day I'm coming home. Flight's at 18:40 Korea time tonight (01:40 Tuesday morning Pacific), coming in at 11:30 Pacific time Tuesday. Odd how the flight from West to East is two hours shorter than the flight from East to West - sure, it's going against the rotation of the Earth, but doesn't that also mean it's going against the wind rotating with the Earth? Ah well. If anybody knows offhand of the Pacific "Gulf Stream" I'm forgetting about, do inform me.

In Repeated News: It snowed! I finally get to use those mammoth skier's gloves. I hope this doesn't affect the flight, though.

In Non News, here's a rough excerpt from my favorite story collection at the moment, Mathematical Apocrypha:

…Due to his need to speak in person with other mathematicians across the violent lake, and his skiddishness of the boats that would ferry him, he had a ritualistic prelude to every voyage. He would write a letter to his fellows, claiming he had solved the Riemann Hypothesis [ed: The most famous unsolved problem in mathematics, about 120 years old at this date; takes a decade of study to begin understanding what the problem is]. Of course, when he arrived at his conferences, he would be harried about Riemann, but always quick, nigh immediate, to move on to other subjects.

One day, a friend and colleague finally confronted him in private about his letters. He responded, "If there is a God, then I know that He can not grant me the infamy of having solved the Riemann Hypothesis and, before telling a soul, taken it to my watery grave."