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今天开始连载统计学家的八卦故事。下面一篇来自美国数学月刊（American Mathematical Monthly)
William (Willy) Feller (1906-1970) and his wife were once trying to move a large circular
table from their living room into the dining room. They pushed and pulled and rotated
and maneuvered, but try as they might they could not get the table through the door.
It seemed to be inextricably stuck. Frustrated and tired, Feller sat down with a pencil
and paper and devised a mathematical model of the situation. After several minutes he
was able to prove that what they were trying to do was impossible. While Willy was
engaged in these machinations, his wife had continued struggling with the table, and
she managed to get it into the dining room.
Vocabulary:
1.inextricably adv. 逃不掉地,解决不了地,解不开地
2.devise vt. 设计，想出
