December 22, 2007

• Mathematics and Narrative

  A Story for Aaron

  "It has been said that the unexamined life isn't worth living.
  Nachman wasn't against examining his life, but then what was a life?
  ....

  ... As for 'a life,' it was what you
  read about in newspaper obituaries. He didn't need one. He would return
  to California and think only about mathematics."

  -- Leonard Michaels, "Cryptology"

  Related material:

  Today's online
  New York Times
  obituaries

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