Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!duke!unc!mcnc!idis!mi-cec!dvk From: dvk@mi-cec.UUCP (Dan Klein) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: Spider gets Fly Message-ID: <157@mi-cec.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 14:40:12 EDT Article-I.D.: mi-cec.157 Posted: Mon Sep 19 14:40:12 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Sep-83 15:14:02 EDT Lines: 6 The problem may have been published in Link Belt news in 1935, but there is an anecdotal story about this problem being presented to a class in which a young Albert Einstein was in attendance (you know, during the years he flunked math). He was "the only one to get it right". Dan Klein's Believe-It-Or-Not, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh