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Word: mountaingoat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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...manner similar to the mathematical text which skips twenty intermediate steps of a proof with a perfunctory "It is obvious from the above that ...," Wiener has a tendency to lcap from idea to idea, ignoring the connections between points. The reader often feels as if he is watching a mountaingoat bound from peak to peak--the display is impressive, but often hard to follow...

Author: By J. MICHAEL Crichton, | Title: Norbert Wiener On Man and His Machine | 5/6/1964 | See Source »

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