Mexico's V-2 distribution in GR

[William Evans Bailey]

Scott Allen wrote:

---Or could it simply be that Pynchon's math isn't that good?

Yeh well this is something to consider.  Pynchon's scientific education 
consisted of _one_ (maybe two, I'm not sure) semester of Engin/Physics at
Cornell.  As somebody pointed out in Pynchon Notes, this was by no means 
sufficient to give him the technical fluency he's shown in his writing...
and as a techie, I'll vouch for the fact that completing the degree program
wouldn't have been enough, either!  He's obviously done a lot of reading on
his own about Thermodynamics, ballistics, etc., just as he has about civilian/
secular topics.  

But given how thorough he generally is in researching historical background
for his books, I'm not willing to conclude immediately that he blew this one.
Either I am misunderstanding something (quite possible), or this is a real
boner, something too fundamental for him to possibly overlook.  

Is there a statistician in the house?

Bill BA


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