Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush-room of the opera at night.

Theorem 3.2. If K is a field and f∈K[x] has degree n>1, then there exists a splitting field F of f with [F:K]<n!

In the sixties the Italians came up with another type, the ersatz Hollywood western, set in Spain, with minor Hollywood western actors starring, and the whole thing dubbable into any language in the world.

I spent my second quarter-century Losing what I had learnt at university And refusing to take in what had happened since. Now I know none of the names in the public prints […]