KTH-gate: Surprising Happy Resolution

KTH-gate is the scandal that hit KTH in the fall 2010 with censorship of my educational literature

• BodyandSoul: Mathematical Simulation Technology (MST)

two weeks after the start of the second year course Numerical Methods II, accompanied by a student driven mediastorm, where KTH-President Peter Gudmundson motivated the censorship by:

• The book contains completely unacceptable material which simply has to be deleted.
• In fact the whole book has to be deleted, except a very small excerpt which is judged to be appropriate for the young innocent minds of the KTH-students.

But two weeks before the end of the course, it was discovered by some talented KTH-hackers that the tsunami almost wrecking KTH, came out from an unfortunate mix-up of MST with the following work

• BodyandSoul: Masoschistical Stimulation Techniques, by Sarah Pahlin.

Once the real BodyandSoul was introduced to the innocent by then disoriented students, the protests vanished and were replaced by a veritable euphoria:

• It is wonderful, it seems I am flying, it is so good, everything so new, so clear and yet so thrilling.
• This is the new IT-world brought right into the heart of education.
• What we have been dreaming of since we started at KTH.
• Simulation Technology makes me feel competent and knowledgable, and I am sure I will get a very good job with these amazing computational tools we´re learning, which will allow me to construct any number of exciting Apps for the Ipad.

The President Peter Gudmundson is relieved by the miraculous resolution of a problem that bogged him down for weeks and had him think of resignation:

• Reading the real BodyandSoul made me think that after all we are doing something meaningful here at KTH, something that can have a real impact. I am so glad.
• In particular I am extremely thankful that Professor Claes Johnson moved his position from Chalmers to KTH and saved us from sclerosis academica.
• Next year the whole education at KTH will be directed by the visionary writings of this eminent scholar and friend. Horray!

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