I remember reading one of Ron Graham's early papers on scheduling [1] when I was a grad and thinking to myself: I'll never have the mental clarity to achieve what this guy has done. What a mind. His wife shares [2]:
``On the wall in Ron's office, he hung a poster of squares arranged in 90 lines each consisting of 52 little squares. Later on he modified it so it contains 100 lines. (He sometimes joked that his grandma lived to 99 and then hit by a truck.) The rule is to fill one square each week. Thus, one can see how many squares are left and how finite and precious life is. He only used 84 lines but every square was gloriously filled.''
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I remember reading one of Ron Graham's early papers on scheduling [1] when I was a grad and thinking to myself: I'll never have the mental clarity to achieve what this guy has done. What a mind. His wife shares [2]:
``On the wall in Ron's office, he hung a poster of squares arranged in 90 lines each consisting of 52 little squares. Later on he modified it so it contains 100 lines. (He sometimes joked that his grandma lived to 99 and then hit by a truck.) The rule is to fill one square each week. Thus, one can see how many squares are left and how finite and precious life is. He only used 84 lines but every square was gloriously filled.''
[1] http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~ronspubs/72_04_two_processors.pdf [2] http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~fan/ron/kayak.html