Varför hänvisar Joe Haldeman till matematik i många av hans historier?

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I många historier av Joe Haldeman nämns huvudpersonens utbildning i matematik även om det är ganska irrelevant för plottet.

Har han sagt varför det är? Har han studerat matematiken själv, eller ångrar att han inte gjorde det?

    
uppsättning Anton Sherwood 02.06.2017 08:58

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I "En självbiografisk ramble av Joe Haldeman", Autobiografisk Ramble , säger han:

...When September came around, I signed up as a part-time graduate student, so I'd have more time to write. On the first day of classes, I found out that the professor who was teaching the one I really needed -- Simulation of Physical Systems -- had run off to another university, leaving his notes with a graduate student who promised he'd try to stay one week ahead of us. I quit. I sat down and wrote the two chapters and outline for War Year and sent them to Bova. Two weeks later, I had a contract from Holt, Rinehart and Winston. I dropped out of mathematics and never looked back.

    
svaret ges 20.11.2018 06:40