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Continued from yesterday evening Today's mathematical birthday — Claude Chevalley, 11 Feb. 1909 – 28 June 1984. From MacTutor — Chevalley's daughter, Catherine Chevalley, wrote about her father in "Claude Chevalley…
Yale Daily News staff columnist Scott Greenberg today, in a piece titled "Filling Religion's Void" — "The secularization of college students in America has seemed a foregone conclusion for…
… industrial designer Kenji Ekuan — Eightfold Design. The adjective "eightfold," intrinsic to Buddhist thought, was hijacked by Gell-Mann and later by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI, pronounced "misery")….
See also Sabol in this journal and The Literary Field .
For Jews of Hungarian background who do not worship Paul Erdős and Rubik's Cube: The Great Escape.
Drop off the Qi, Li.
Continued from earlier posts. The Washington Post online yesterday: "Val Logsdon Fitch, the Nebraska rancher’s son who shared the Nobel Prize for detecting a breakdown in the overarching…
See also today's previous post, Hungarian Phenomenon.
For Autism Sunday — Mathematician John von Neumann reportedly died on this date. "He belonged to that so-called Hungarian phenomenon…." — A webpage titled "Von Neumann, Jewish Catholic" Illustrations…
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