About that math

[galadhelsul]

This is the reply I got from a math professor at MIT when I asked him about sub-Riemannian manifolds:

Unfortunately I'm leaving tomorrow morning for the break, and will be travelling during much of IAP. Also, I really don't know anything about sub-Riemannian manifolds or other degenerate metrics. I'm sorry to say that sub-Riemannian geometry is a

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[lauradi7]

I of course don't know anything about that stuff, but a little rummaging through the internet produced this person
http://count.ucsc.edu/~rmont/

If you're willing to wait a couple of weeks, you could send Florence to knock on his door. She probably wouldn't understand anything he told her, though.

His CV references a geometry person at MIT, Victor Guillemin. (who may be one of the people you already talked to)
http://web.mit.edu/bin/cgicso?query=guillemin

[42itous]

I am actually studying a branch of math that MIT math professors don't know anything about.

That's impressive.

[annag]

I thought you were 16?