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...importance of a scientific work, as the German mathematician David Hilbert once observed, can be measured by the number of previous publications it makes superfluous to read. Scientists and technologists dare not wait for their current journals...
...illustrious predecessors: the Greek poet Pindar (circa 500 B.C.) wrote an ode without using the letter sigma. Lewis Carroll, an Oxford mathematician better known for the Alice books, liked to mix the logic of numbers with the freedom of dreams. In this century, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings and Vladimir Nabokov all enjoyed the pleasures of arithmetic while exploring the peripheries of language. But it was not until 1960 that the newly formed OuLiPo officiated at the shotgun wedding of science and literature. Its first and still most remarkable product was Cent Milie Milliards de Poems (A Hundred Thousand...
Your article claims that "unemployment is no longer the national trauma it once was" because of extended jobless benefits. Your mathematician should stick to math...
Work and Mozart. On the voyage out, Bellow finds himself surrounded by Hasidim, Jews in outmoded black attire, long earlocks and beards. One of them asks Bellow what his wife does for a living. She is a mathematician, the author explains. The Hasid has no idea what the occupation is. "Do you recognize the name of Einstein?" "Never. Who is he?" In me, reflects Bellow, "he sees what deformities the modern age can produce in the seed of Abraham. In him I see a piece of history, an antiquity...
...rabbi said. It is a similar endurance and a willingness to always begin again which makes him admire one of his friends, another Widener scholar who sat sipping coffee at the same lunch table. The woman, who also asked that her name be withheld, has been a Ph.D. mathematician and physicist in her native Austria, an antiquarian and linguist after an attack of polio, the coordinator of an African education project, the author of an article on the artist Oskar Kokoschka, and is currently a student of plants. She explained her activities without the rabbi's serious tone in what...