[hilbert42]

Yeah right. I'm not a mathematician by profession so much of my time has been spent just plugging values into equations. The trouble with that is twofold, first one can forget those less frequently used esoteric tricks one was taught, and second, one can overlook whole swathes of the subject - those parts outside one's normal orbit.

I never seem to have enough time to sit down and do nothing but mathematics for its own sake.