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While I don't think it's a very good question, I can't help feeling that if it had been asked by someone else - one of the senior mathematicians with some interest in history or trivia - the response would have been more favourable. So while I can't disagree with
Plus the OP has a long history of posting terrible questions/answers/comments and making the moderators' jobs unpleasant
I'm not sure this should be held up as the main reason for closing or re-closing the question. Also, it's actually much better (in an MO context) than some of the OP's previous questions/answers/comments, IMHO.
That said: I reiterate that I don't think it's a very good question, even if it irks me less than some recent big lists that have been bobbing back to the surface.
There are special rules applying to AndrewL's use of MathOverflow, which have been spelled out at length on meta. This post broke those rules. After AndrewL last broke those rules, I proposed to the moderators that we switch AndrewL from the linearly increasingly suspension model to an exponentially increasing one. As there were no objections, I've applied the appropriate suspension, and also deleted the post. That was 4 minutes of my time that I'd like back, please.
And me getting back on here looking for information and hoping to be treated in a civilized manner was clearly an even bigger error by me,Scott. I didn't think those rules applied for a lifetime-especially when it was a legitimate question. But since almost everyone here seems to be entertained by booting me off if I sneeze at the wrong trajectory angle,I'll just take my ball and go home again. Sorry to have wasted your 4 minutes.
Andrew L.
@gilkalai I was told once as an undergraduate that I.R. Herstein was lecturing to an audience and he was asked why he didn't use the standard boldface Z to denote the integers and he supposedly responded, "I no longer recall how to speak German."- a reference to the Nazi occupation of his native Poland and the tragedy that resulted. I was recently mocked for this and found no online evidence Herstein said this. I wanted to know if anyone else knew of this anecdote and could tell me who in fact was supposed to have said it. And for THAT, I was booted off. I thought some of the more historically knowledgeable experts in here could help me with that.
@gilkalai Ok,I thought it was a reasonable question for the historians in the room. I still don't think it merited a suspension-they could have simply messaged me that they felt in was inappropriate given that whether or not it WAS an appropriate question was a debatable point. My mistake was not asking the moderators on Meta first before posting it. But as I said,I thought it was a reasonable question. I assume NOTHING from now on given the climate in here. See you in the funny papers.
Andrew L.
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