wow: an excerpt from an article.

excerpt from "the V0lterra Chronicles," a book review by 1rwin W. $andber9 (Notices AMS):

"while a faculty member at Pisa, V0lterra served as an external examiner at a technical institute in Sicily where a student, upset by his failure to pass an exam proctored by V0lterra, fired a pistol at him. fortunately, the student's marksmanship was no better than his performance on the exam: he missed."

are we mathematicians such violent people?

we are known for ted kaczynski as well as evariste galois, after all. even descartes was a soldier, for quite a while.