April 25, 2009
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The Cruelest Month continues...
April is Awareness Month
for both
Mathematics and Autism.Welcome to the
Black Hole Café"Our lifelong friendship made me not only an admirer of the depth, scholarship, and sheer energy of his mathematical work (and of his ceaseless activities as an editorial entrepreneur on behalf of mathematics) but one in awe of his status as the ultimate relaxed sophisticate."
Psychoshopby Alfred Bester
and Roger Zelazny:His manner was all charm and grace; pure café society....
He purred a chuckle. "My place. If you want to come, I'll show you."
"Love to. The Luogo Nero? The Black Place?"
"That's what the locals call it. It's really Buoco Nero, the Black Hole."
"Like the Black Hole of Calcutta?"
"No. Black Hole as in astronomy. Corpse of a dead star, but also channel between this universe and its next-door neighbor."
"After Davis and Hersh,
it will be hard to uphold
the Glasperlenspiel
view of mathematics."
-- Gian-Carlo Rota"For every kind of vampire,
there is a kind of cross."
-- Thomas Pynchon
