March 9, 2009

• Mathematics and Narrative, continued:

  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.

  Related material:

  • The five Log24 entries ending Jan. 19, 2008
  • “The End of Endings,” by Richard John Neuhaus

  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 

  
  Russell Crowe as game theorist
  John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind”

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