July 24, 2009
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Mathematics and Narrative:
Word Problem"Philosophers ponder the idea
of identity: what it is to
give something a name on
Monday and have it respond
to that name on Friday...."
-- Bernard HollandQuoted here Monday:
Tom Wolfe on the moon
landing forty years ago:"What NASA needs now
is the power of the Word."
"It don't mean a thing
if it ain't got that...."Background:
This week's
earlier entries.Happy birthday,
Gus Van Sant.
