From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   William Hyde  wrote or quoted:   
   >As for measure theory, I have nightmares of hour long classes which in   
   >the end succeeded only in proving that   
   >"The unit sphere is closed in the weak* topology".   
   >and I can no longer recall why that was of any importance.   
      
     Yeah, I think one of the best initiation rites is when   
     they throw this at you: "Show that open balls are open!".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)