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Just last night I finished My Brain is Open by Bruce Schechter, a fantastic account of mathematician Paul Erdos' life. It's the most recent book in something of a math history binge, a topic which turns out to be either impossibly boring or incredibly interesting.
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Just finished Temperament which told how, over a 500 year struggle between some of the greatest minds in physics, philosophy, music, and mathematics, the piano achieved the system of tuning that we are familiar with today (twelve tone equal temperament). It's weird that something that's so familiar and so rational is the result of hundreds of years of debate.
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I just finished One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which was a nice departure from a heavy load of recently assigned classical Greek plays and literature (The Illiad, Prometheus Bound, Seven Against Thebes, and Antigone). (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I had always dismissed Faulkner as an obscurantist hack since my first exposure to him was trudging through Sanctuary (which he said he wrote because he needed the money) and complaining endlessly, but recently I just finished Absalom! Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury and good god drat was I ever wrong. Hell of a writer that Billy Faulkner.
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