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Arthur Jaffe CV: "In 2005 Arthur Jaffe succeeded Sir Michael Atiyah as Chair of the Board of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Study, School of Theoretical Physics." Related…
The Snow White dance from last Nov. 14 features an ad that was originally embedded in an American Mathematical Society Notices review describing three books of vulgarized mathematics….
A review of the life of physicist Arthur Wightman, who died at 90 on January 13th, 2013. yields the following. Wightman at Wikipedia: "His graduate students include Arthur…
Primes Are Forever "If diamonds are a girl's best friend, prime numbers are a mathematician's…. A Mersenne prime is of the form 2P-1, where the variable P is…
For Kiefer Sutherland, Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, 2013 Act I: Current Validity for Erlangen…? … MathOverflow question dated March 28, 2011 Act II: Erlangen … Starring…
Related material: G. H. Hardy on seriousness.
John Berryman in The New York Review of Books : FEBRUARY 1, 1963 • VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 "Now he has become, abrupt, an industry. Professional-Friends-Of-Robert-Frost all over open…
Today's online Telegraph has an obituary of The Troggs' lead singer Reg Presley, who died yesterday at 71. The unusually brilliant style of of the unsigned obituary suggests…
The previous post discussed some fundamentals of logic. The name "Boole" in that post naturally suggests the concept of Boolean algebra . This is not the algebra needed for…
From January 26, 2013— Related material: "universe of discourse"— The concept In De Morgan and Boole The concept in De Morgan (1846) The concept and phrase in Boole (1854)