Talk:Max August Zorn

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I met Max Zorn once. I was taking graduate level Real Analysis as part of my PhD studies at Indiana University. Of course, I had just learned Zorn's lemma. I assumed that it was made up by someone long dead.

It was a day with dark foreboding clouds. Just as I walked into the snack machine room, there was a sudden massive downpour. I saw an elderly gentleman struggling to close the window. I went over and helped. He thanked me. We shook our heads together at the suddenness of the storm.

After he walked out, a classmate said, "Dude, that was Max Zorn, of Zorn's Lemma."

Apparently at the time, he was retired emeritus, but apparently he still came to the office from time to time.

--Jimbo Wales

[edit] death

I have heard yesterday from somebody who studied at the Indiana University that Zorn died in a car accident, being hit by a student at a dangerous pedestrian crossing near the university, with the car going downhill; it was only after this death that the long-rejected petition to the city traffic folks was finally accepted and traffic lights erected in order to prevent similar accident reoccurences at the same place. Any locals up for local newspapers library research to confirm this? BACbKA 14:27, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)