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...visited Harvard in 1978 in an informal capacity and without any publicity--have prompted researchers to drop their own work and try to verify the new theory. Several mathematicians at Harvard and MIT met during late June and July to share their expertise and verity different parts of Faltings manuscript...
Faltings' manuscript is only 40 pages, which according to Artin, is unusually concise for a through mathematical proof. As a result the mathematicians had to go back to Faltings' original sources to double check the professor's work. But after the meetings, all the mathematicians agreed that Faltings' work is "strikingly foolproof." David Kazhdan, Professor of Mathematics said last week...
LIKE THE WORK of P.D.Q. Bach, The Name of the Rose is supposedly the long lost manuscript of an unknown, in this case an unknown monk. Nor does the comparison end there: like its musical counterpart which combines serious composition with more popular and humorous melodies, this book presents accurate history, philosophy, and semiotics in the form of a good old mystery novel and one not entirely devoid of humor at that...
...lain among the wealth of original manuscripts in the cavernous New York Public Library for the past 30 years. Now Father Abraham, a short story by William Faulkner, is about to be published for the first time. Written in 1926, after his first novel, Soldiers' Pay, the story plots the origins of the Snopes family, who were to form the center of his Yoknapatawpha County trilogy (The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion). Father Abraham, which was the start of a never finished novel, has been known to Faulknerian scholars for years. But curiously, no one had ever transcribed...
Famous Literary Typewriters. Hitler evidently did not use a typewriter, being a dictator, but other writers have found it indispensable. J.M. Synge and Henry James, to name two. Mark Twain, who typed the manuscript of either Tom Sawyer or Life on the Mississippi (the matter is murky), became the first author to hand in a typewritten book to his publisher. Of his Remington, Twain wrote: "It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around." Twain also began the practice of double-spacing manuscripts, thus providing room for editors ever since to fill the margins with the words "awkward...