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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 prompters”—their existence and purpose was revealed in a series of letters to the Postmaster of Princeton describing these iconic objects “as Tibetan prayer rags…they 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 Goedel’s 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 (“Happy’s Coffee Happy Restaurant”) with “I thought to stay and I stayed to go…”; a U.S. penny with a penned “x” through Lincoln’s 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 prompters”—their existence and purpose was revealed in a series of letters to the Postmaster of Princeton describing these iconic objects “as Tibetan prayer rags…they 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 Goedel’s 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 (“Happy’s Coffee Happy Restaurant”) with “I thought to stay and I stayed to go…”; a U.S. penny with a penned “x” through Lincoln’s 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.
JAN 18, 2010 05:35 AM
Airlia
HOPEFUL
Atlanta, GA
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I have to say Miss Lee I liked your post about love quite a bit. It is easier to relate to you then from an academic level 
As was once quoted in one of my favorite movies.... I am the mental equivalent of a 98lbs weakling 
Most of my friends are academics. I think they keep me around for entertainment or as the court jester.
25 y/o... makes you working for your doctorate? What in?
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I'll trade you the luck for your brains 
I am good at the wildlife part but not so good with the biology part 
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