Re: [FRIAM] Google Search, The Case for a Scientific Education, and Google Cars

2010-11-05 Thread Self
Shawn, Thank you! This must have been what I was misremembering. Lee, A similar quote appears in a The Theater Critic and His Double by John Simon in the _Hudson Review_: Thus he sees, apparently, two Edmund Wilsons where there is only one admittedly large one, two cultures

Re: [FRIAM] The Best 10 Fictional Works

2010-10-09 Thread Self
On 9 Oct 2010 at 16:04, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Perhaps you could gin up a reading group for the City University of Santa Fe Spring Coffee House Seminars. Do we know anybody with a PhD in English who would lead us? I know that, being unacquainted as I am with the CVs of the Friends and

Re: [FRIAM] Thurston vs Jaffe and Quinn

2009-12-20 Thread Self
On 20 Dec 2009 at 9:41, Roger Frye wrote: I think it is important to look at William Thurston's paper ON PROOF AND PROGRESS IN MATHEMATICS http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.HO/9404236 in the context of the very provocative article which stimulated it by Arthur Jaffe and Frank