Two-time U.S. Women’s Champion Jennifer Shahade blogged about how she began “reading” my book King’s Gambit by consulting the index for all mentions of Shahade.
I love indexes. Today I found my old Thomas calculus book from high school, and, just as I remembered, there was a little hijinks in the index. It says, “Whales, p. 188.” But turn to page 188 and you’ll find no mention of whales; there are two graphs on the page, though, that are vaguely whale-shaped.
Can you name the book that contains the following index entries?
Allen, Woody, 20
Bust, 376-77
Clinton, Bill, 311
Cruise, Tom, 72
Fishburne, Laurence, 65
Houdini, Harry 20
Madonna, 199
September 10, 2007 at 10:21 am |
Josh Waitzkin’s The Art of Learning?
September 10, 2007 at 11:16 am |
Oh, wait, never mind: It’s King’s Gambit–duh. (I cheated.)
September 12, 2007 at 2:21 pm |
Paul,
On reading this posting, I also fondly remembered (or thought I remembered) something from an old math book. I found Rotman’s “Theory of Groups” on my shelf, opened to the index, and — yes, it was there: Sandwiched between p-group and Polya, Rotman has an entry that reads
Pippik, Moishe, see Navel, Maurice.
Care to guess what’s listed under “Navel, Maurice”?
– Stuart