First and Last Things

Next Sunday’s New York Times Book Review arrived in today’s mail. On the inside of the first page is a full-page ad for a course of 24 lectures on DVD’s called “Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond.” On the inside of the last page is “Our Steiner Problem– and Mine,” a full-page essay by Lee Siegel on polymath George Steiner.

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Happy birthday to the late Bobby Fischer.

“For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
 And tell sad stories of the death of kings”
— Richard II, Act III, Scene ii 
Portrayal of John Nash sitting upon the ground
Russell Crowe as game theorist
John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind”