Sometime in the mid 80's I was wondering around downtown Nice, and struck up a conversation with a man bit younger than myself. Turned out he was a physicist, working in Nice, so he told me his name (Jean-Marc Gambaudo) and I told him mine.
He looked at me, impressed and said "Are you a son of Cvitanovich??!".
He looked at me, impressed and said "Are you a son of Cvitanovich??!".
"Yes," I said proudly,
"I am a son of Cvitanović"
He'll probably be in the audience in Nice Dynamics Days - Europe 2020 :)
Makes sense. For him the work Feigenbaum and I did in 1976 was ancient prehistory, something there along with Cauchy and Faraday.
Never told my father (engineer in dairy industry) about it.
He had very low opinion of us in academia.
