Quote/More Stuff on SK & Hilbert

[Richard Romeo]

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>(Hopeless latecomer as always; just back from my
>paternal grandma\'s funeral, who died two weeks ago at
>the age of 100; she, incredibly, managed to live in
>three centuries...)
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my condolences on your loss--but 100 yrs is a beautiful gift, don't you 
think?


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>(But now I have to be elsewhere again, and don\'t have
>time to return to my Thursday\'s post on Kovalevskaya,
>Taussky, and Noether -- so, please, Rich: S H O O T )
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>Heikki

Sonja Kowalewski (i do like the moniker Red Sonja from my comic collecting 
days) was also a novelist. I'm assuming that as TRP fleshed out historical 
male characters like Mason and Dixon, imparting to them some of the concerns 
of characters from the earlier books, but with more humanity, that maybe 
thru Ms. SK, he may do the same, with vis-a-vis Oedipa. Just a thought...

SK died in the early 1890s before much of what Hilbert acoomplished.

according to Reid:  "Emmy Noether had little in common with the legendary 
"female mathemtician" Sonja Kowalewski, who had bewithced even Weierstrass 
with her young charms as well as her mind."

Hilbert has a pretty funny saying regarding a phycisist colleague who became 
a novelist along the lines of he wrote literature because he did not have 
the imagination to be a physicist.

Hilbert's son went mad, complaining of being plagued by evil spirits.

More as I find'em

Rich



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