Re:What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (2005)
by odbol_ on Thursday October 13, 2016 @02:54PM
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ahem plagiarism much? I expected better from The New Yorker.
Re:What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (2005)
by dllthomas on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:34PM
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"Who made me the genius I am today, the mathematician that others all quote?"
Re:What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (2005)
by eli_gottlieb on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:38PM
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Nikolai Ivanovitch Lobachevski is his name!
[Article] > He believed in ghosts; he had a morbid dread of being poisoned by refrigerator gases; he refused to go out when certain distinguished mathematicians were in town, apparently out of concern that they might try to kill him. “Every chaos is a wrong appearance,” he insisted—the paranoiac’s first axiom.
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[Book] > Gödel believed in ghosts; he had a morbid dread of being poisoned by refrigerator gases; he refused to go out when certain distinguished mathematicians were in town, apparently because he feared that they would try to kill him. Gödel said, "Every chaos is a wrong appearance."
This is kind of a bummer too, because the article was a wonderful read, and it actually flows a lot better than the text in the book. However, it does appear that a lot of the article is a re-wording of what's in the book, just weaved together into a better flow.
EDIT: Based on the other replies, I may have things reversed. It may be that the book is ripping off the article.