AtD translation: almost as if he were whispering to her

[rich]

I had thought it was a girl, too this being Girton which was all female
college back in the day.

rich

On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 4:08 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On second thought, that's probably about something else, and I'm not sure
> what.
>
>
> On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 3:43 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I didn't consider that possibility since down the page the person in her
> > bed is a girl, and she is supposed to prefer her own sex. So this must be
> > the "one or two boys in Hardy’s classes" mentioned on the next page
> > (P499.6) then?
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 2:57 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I had assumed the first he was the classmate who slipped into her bed.
> >>
> >> Am So., 23. Mai 2021 um 05:42 Uhr schrieb Mike Jing <
> >> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >>> P498.11-17   She took refuge more and more in the Zeta-function
> problem,
> >>> to
> >>> which she found herself adverting even as the classmate whose gaze
> during
> >>> the day she had met and held came tiptoeing in after curfew, slipping
> >>> naked
> >>> into Yashmeen’s own narrow bed, even in that rare and wordless moment,
> >>> she
> >>> was not quite able to ignore the question, almost as if he were
> >>> whispering
> >>> to her, of why Riemann had simply asserted the figure of one-half at
> the
> >>> outset instead of deriving it later. . . . “One would of course like to
> >>> have a rigorous proof of this,” he wrote, “but I have put aside the
> >>> search
> >>> . . . after some fleeting vain attempts because it is not necessary for
> >>> the
> >>> immediate objective of my investigation.”
> >>>
> >>> I assume the "he" here is the same "he" a bit later in "he wrote",
> which
> >>> refers to Riemann. Is that correct?
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