Happy New Year

am here in Ft Lauderdale until Friday enjoying the company of my 18 year old son—the US Army has made a man out of him in 3 short months

called a couple of times and wanted to wish you a happy new year and thank you for your warm support

i have solved the problem of Honour Killings, at least in outline, and i intend to produce a short book while also spreading it on the internet—a film made in Barcelona, trimmed to less than an hour should arrive when the Spanish get back to work after Christmas—perhaps mid-January? Your support backed all of this

i fly out to Chapman University in Orange County LA for a week in April

i was there this November as a Presidential Fellow—the President is in fact a very agreeable Italian mathematician of real talent:

Dr. Struppa is the author of more than 200 refereed publications, and he is the editor of several volumes. He has edited or co-authored more than ten books, including Bicomplex Holomorphic Functions (2015), Regular Functions of a Quaternionic Variable (2013), Noncommutative Functional Calculus: Theory and Applications of Slice Hyperholomorphic Functions (2011), Analysis of Dirac Systems and Computational Algebra (2004), Fundamentals of Algebraic Microlocal Analysis (1999), and The Fundamental Principle for Systems of Convolution Equations (1983).

So he calls me two days before i leave Jamaica and says he had watched my whole Honour Killing talk and was taken by its mathematical logic and the host of research it invited—exactly how fast do is rise as a function of percent cousin marriages? how would clan intercaste linkage analysis help explain the Hindu case et al

he was eager to discuss with me in April a deeper relationship with Chapman including teaching, i.e. a jump from 20 grand a year to 100 or more

so i played your card and said that i was really taken by Chapman (which I am) and i had a friend who said that if i ever got an offer worth considering he would match it (your 80/20 split of 100)

well he liked the sound of that !

so i plan to reverse it with him this April—and have HIM match YOU-50 more in research funds, e.g. to do the genetics of both elite sprinters and the West African populations from which they sprang (5 individuals for 5 countries should do the trick) and your funds can't support that work

this is supposed to be best wishes to you and instead it is all about me—but after all i know very little of your mental life except that its calming influence has left me $160,000 richer than a year ago

warmest best

bob

p.s. please warn me if i should convert all of my stocks to cash