Well I think that's quite enough of that love nonsense, I don't know what came over me there. I like this thing I read about Godel -
On exhibit is a collection of the intellectual paraphernalia that Goedel evidently assembled to bring with him to a September 1949 therapy session with his Trenton psychiatrist, Dr. R. Blister Kent. Goedel put together a number of thoughts on various scraps of material that he must have used as thought prompterstheir existence and purpose was revealed in a series of letters to the Postmaster of Princeton describing these iconic objects as Tibetan prayer ragsthey were supposed to assure me of a certain level of attention and suffice to bring my mind to the business of the therapy session.without my scribbled clues I would have found myself bored beyond the supplication of mortal words.
We see here the contents of an aged manila envelope labeled
Trenton Dr. Can Not Sep49 including the following, (with Goedels notations in quotation):
(Two) Pressed flowers with ask about the laundry; (three) Ticonderoga pencils with penciled notes at what time did I happen; matchbook cover (Happys Coffee Happy Restaurant) with I thought to stay and I stayed to go; a U.S. penny with a penned x through Lincolns head and the tiny words not to be The Eat; a 2 long and 1 wide rolled piece of paper with musings on the relationship between memory, truth and imagination; a menu for a 1954 formal dinner introducing the JOHNIAC computer at the IAS in which Goedel has drawn a self portrait next to all listed honorees names except his own; and several other small, inscrutable items.
I love this picture I found last night of Gustav Herglotz and Gaston Julia, I am really fascinated by Julia, I wish I knew more about him. Pieces of human biography are treasure. All I really know about him is that he was a French mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set fractal but he was more proud of the 199-page article he wrote describing the iteration of a rational function. He loved music and mathematics and when he was 21 he was conscripted and subsequently injured and lost his nose. They tried to help him with lots of operations but they were never successful so he has to wear a tin nose or leather strap for the rest of his life over the area where his nose once was. I'm really moved when I see pictures of him.
Unusual characters in the history of mathematics are infinitely more interesting than my past loves. Thinking about the past loves of other people is more interesting too, for example what loves and memories Julia might have had.
On exhibit is a collection of the intellectual paraphernalia that Goedel evidently assembled to bring with him to a September 1949 therapy session with his Trenton psychiatrist, Dr. R. Blister Kent. Goedel put together a number of thoughts on various scraps of material that he must have used as thought prompterstheir existence and purpose was revealed in a series of letters to the Postmaster of Princeton describing these iconic objects as Tibetan prayer ragsthey were supposed to assure me of a certain level of attention and suffice to bring my mind to the business of the therapy session.without my scribbled clues I would have found myself bored beyond the supplication of mortal words.
We see here the contents of an aged manila envelope labeled
Trenton Dr. Can Not Sep49 including the following, (with Goedels notations in quotation):
(Two) Pressed flowers with ask about the laundry; (three) Ticonderoga pencils with penciled notes at what time did I happen; matchbook cover (Happys Coffee Happy Restaurant) with I thought to stay and I stayed to go; a U.S. penny with a penned x through Lincolns head and the tiny words not to be The Eat; a 2 long and 1 wide rolled piece of paper with musings on the relationship between memory, truth and imagination; a menu for a 1954 formal dinner introducing the JOHNIAC computer at the IAS in which Goedel has drawn a self portrait next to all listed honorees names except his own; and several other small, inscrutable items.
I love this picture I found last night of Gustav Herglotz and Gaston Julia, I am really fascinated by Julia, I wish I knew more about him. Pieces of human biography are treasure. All I really know about him is that he was a French mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set fractal but he was more proud of the 199-page article he wrote describing the iteration of a rational function. He loved music and mathematics and when he was 21 he was conscripted and subsequently injured and lost his nose. They tried to help him with lots of operations but they were never successful so he has to wear a tin nose or leather strap for the rest of his life over the area where his nose once was. I'm really moved when I see pictures of him.
Unusual characters in the history of mathematics are infinitely more interesting than my past loves. Thinking about the past loves of other people is more interesting too, for example what loves and memories Julia might have had.
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Yer so smart n' pretty. I have to pick my jaw up off the floor every time I look at/read your page.
Congratulations on yet another spectacular set. You are essential SG.