The Great Big Art History

She telephoned various places and still couldnБЂ™t find anybody. Then she remembered Professor Otto Neugebauer, of Brown University, the great expert on Babylonian mathematics [2]. She telephoned him in Rhode Island and asked if he knew someone on the West Coast who could lecture on Mayan mathematics and astronomy. БЂњYes,БЂ«he said. БЂњI do. HeБЂ™s not a professional anthropologist or a historian; heБЂ™s an amateur. But he certainly knows a lot about it. His name is Richard Feynman.БЂ«She nearly died! SheБЂ™s trying to bring some culture to the physicists, and the only way to do it is to get a physicist! The only reason I knew anything about Mayan mathematics was that I was getting exhausted on my honeymoon in Mexico with my second wife, Mary Lou. She was greatly interested in art history, particularly that of Mexico. So we went to Mexico for our honeymoon and we climbed up pyramids and down pyramids; she had me following her all over the place. She showed me many interesting things, such as certain relationships in the designs of various figures, but after a few days (and nights) of going up and down in hot and steamy jungles, I was exhausted ...»