Tag: miscellany

As recollected from a Walt Kelly Pogo Cartoon in the NY Post in the early 1970s. Somewhere I have the original cartoon, which I will…

In Hong Kong the other day I saw an exhibition of photographs taken by Sebastian Salgado. Some of them were photographs of

Recollections concerning first experiences of human death: 1. I am between one and two years old. A closed to door to a darkened room. I…

In the beginning, no Inside or Outside. When other things materialize, call them things. Things penetrate your boundary. Every thing is Inside or Outside. You cannot be…

Forty-odd years ago I had to take a final exam in Thermodynamics in order to be exempt from taking the course itself, and in order…

I am going to teach an introductory course in financial engineering, and I hate the way people who introduce the subject in continuous time struggle…

To teach someone well, you have to be able to put yourself in that person’s mental place, because they are not you and don’t have…

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