Maths prof's sums ground plane

09 May 2016 - 09:06
By The Daily Telegraph

An Italian maths professor was taken from an American Airlines plane about to take off after a fellow passenger feared his "mysterious" scribbling on a notepad was evidence that he was a terrorist.In fact, Guido Menzio was working on an equation connected with a presentation on price-setting.But the sight of a slightly swarthy curly-haired individual scrawling odd symbols on a notepad was enough to alarm the woman, who was sitting next to him as a flight from Philadelphia to Syracuse prepared fo...

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