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By Hilbert writ, by Manning sealed

Posted on February 13, 2021 by markweiss86

Barbara Manning wrote and recorded an original song as a tribute to mathematicians like Cantor, Goedel, Hilbert, Cohen and Good Will Hunting. lyrics It’s hard to be the only one who knows something that’s true To stand alone as colleagues groan
They’ll … Continue reading →

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Painter who can describe CH

Posted on October 19, 2019 by markweiss86

At Gallery House, there are two cityscapes of NYC by Mitun (Balman) who also, I discovered, studied math well enough to, several years later, after Berkeley, describe CH (by Paul J. Cohen) with considerable depth. I wish I could have … Continue reading →

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Raymond Smullyan’s Dracula w. Colin Meloy

Posted on November 7, 2015 by markweiss86

I saw a book worth purchasing and someday reading, at Bell’s books, about Dracula and logic. “What is the Name of This Book:…” is the name of the book. The subhead is about the Dracula riddle. It does have a … Continue reading →

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Some thoughts on the Paul J. Cohen film, eight years after his passing

Posted on February 5, 2015 by markweiss86

I’m a family friend, of the sons, but I also knew Paul. They started filming, before Paul’s illness presented. They went with him to Austria for Godel@100, and filmed that lecture, which is searchable on Youtube. The boys, although Stanford … Continue reading →

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28 types of primes, or 2 times 2 times 7 rather

Posted on February 5, 2015 by markweiss86

bounded primes? No, I mean, “bound gaps“. RTFA I sent the link to the article on Yitang Zhang to Steve and Eric Cohen; I also posted elsewhere: Steve and Eric Cohen, the twinned sons of Paul J. Cohen, are making … Continue reading →

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Paul Cohen joins the set of immortals

Posted on January 18, 2015 by markweiss86

Well, that plus the picture in the LBJ archive and 1, 3 days later: Steve and Eric Cohen and I earned our MOCL degrees yesterday at Stanford, Masters of Creative Loafing. We went by Sloan the math building where Paul … Continue reading →

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Original G, or Lah med yah weh

Posted on December 4, 2014 by markweiss86

(Note: I wrote this exactly one month ago but re-reading it, it eludes even me. The basic story is that a barista at Peet’s in South Palo Alto who did not look particularly interested in Torah had four Hebrew characters … Continue reading →

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Driving me cazzie

Posted on September 23, 2014 by markweiss86

Ok, I admit. I’m spread a little thin. Partial remedy, I gave away a book. A new book. Recently procured. Having carried the clip, the review around for a couple years. Harvy Araton’s book about the great Knicks teams, of … Continue reading →

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Mandelbrot v. Cohen, Fractals v. Forcing, Morris v. Steve and Eric, ‘Errol Morris Dancing’

Posted on April 26, 2014 by markweiss86

  “Errol Morris Dancing” >> play both of these short films simultaneously, and vary the effect by muting one or the other for sound   Cohen is noted for developing a mathematical technique called forcing, which he used to prove that … Continue reading →

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True professor and Lehrer

Posted on April 4, 2012 by markweiss86

Great interview between Michael Krasny and Jonah Lehrer right now on KQED — I am racing them to the top of the hour to post this entry of “Plastic Alto”. I had seen the article in yesterday’s Times about his … Continue reading →

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