The Unbearable Lightness of Being was released in 1988. It was a remarkable movie that inspired me to read Kundera. From the late 80s and early 90s, he was my favorite author – epitomizing questioning, intelligence, and masculine indulgence with a European flair. Obituaries from the New York Times and The Economist copied in full:Continue reading “Milan Kundera”
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Gödel and Einstein: Friendship and Relativity
This is a post copied whole cloth from an article by Palle Yourgrau as he was marketing his (then) recently published A World Without Time (2006). There have been any number of articles about both of these incredible thinkers. Despite a biting criticism (reposted in full at the bottom of this page) of Yourgrau’s book, IContinue reading “Gödel and Einstein: Friendship and Relativity”
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