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(For new reader and those who request 好友请求, please read my 公告栏 first)
Proximity to Fame.
I was sitting in the waiting lounge of the San Francisco airport for
plane change on my way back from China (Beijing to Boston)
when the overhead TV announced the Nobel prize winners for
economics for 2007. They were Roger Myerson, Eric Maskin, and
Leonid Hurewicz. In my forty years of teaching at Harvard,
Roger Myerson is the only student who received a perfect mark of
100 on the final examination of my course on decision analysis.
Eric Maskin also distinguished himself as the only student who
were able to solve one of the most difficult examination problem
in an information and control course I taught. Both of them were
students of applied mathematics and economics who took my
course in operations research and control theory in
our Engineering school . Leonid Hurwicz
was senior to me in age. However, I did know about his work and
had him as a plenary speaker in a conference I organized in 1975.
So here is my claim to reflected glory by being one step removed
from Nobel fame.
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