Having an arbitrary status for last author creates its own problems for studies where there is no "senior" author and for interdisciplinary work where the same customs are not followed. If PIs blocking first author is such a big problem why not arbitrarily inflate the importance of second author?

How?

Football shirts are just billboards for the companies advertising on them. People should be paid to wear them, but instead they pay ridiculous amounts of money for them. It's mad.

Wes Streeting

What a game! I liked the corner goal best where all the Danes moved out of the way and it hit Shankland from a yard out

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It has indeed! Great to hear from you and nice to see you're still working in maths!

We had an assignment where we had to prove a number was irrational. After handing it in I found that all the other students had used a different method so I assumed I had messed up. Got the marked paper back from πeter with just a tick at the bottom and "Ingenious!" Best moment of my academic life.

He had this brilliant way of saying 3. He pronounced it "thray" and there would always be the tiniest of pauses before he said it as he knew all the students were waiting for it. It became like a little parlour trick.

He was a fantastic mathematician. Proved that Alhazen's billiard problem could not be solved with straight edge and compass, which was one of few problems left over from antiquity.