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To: TrappedInLiberalHell
John Allen Paulos' books are great, too

Have read most all of them, thanks to the local Library. Very insightful and should be mandatory reading for math courses in high school. Math can be fun :) And integrating math and computing can be even more fun. Alas, I am geek...
21 posted on 06/09/2002 6:28:18 PM PDT by chance33_98
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To: chance33_98
Alas, I am geek...

Sounds kind of like "Hello, my name is Bill W." I'm kind of a renaissance geek. Majored in Math, minored in C.S., yet won the literature prize at graduation in high school, and sang in my college's chamber choir; Currently, I maintain a gardening web site, hike, bike, kayak, write poetry, maintain an online diary, spend way too much time on FR, managed my divorce, maintain a long-distance relationship, and oh, hold down a full-time job. That all sounds good, like I'm well-rounded, but often the way it feels to me is that in any given one of those areas, many or most people in the group are better than I at the given skill.

But still, like Johnny 5 in the movie "Short Circuit", my motto would be "IIIIInnnnnput!" It would be cool to be the Tiger Woods or Pavarotti of SOMETHING. I guess I just find too many things too interesting to set aside for one thing. I 'spect there are a lot like me on FR. Viva generalism!

27 posted on 06/09/2002 6:49:07 PM PDT by TrappedInLiberalHell
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To: chance33_98; TrappedInLiberalHell
I typed out a chapter from A Mathematician... and posted it here about 2 years ago, but I can't find it. Oh well...
33 posted on 06/09/2002 7:03:11 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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