Very Tenuously P: London ...

[Michael Bailey]

y'say tenuous?  I got some tenuous...

Interestingly, and not entirely un-P-relatedly (under the relaxed
accounting standards of deregulation), the Mises mention of whose
economics (and writing skills - I still think he'd have been a great
fictioneer had he turned his hand from the dismal science and gotten
"delirious", cammed out, as it were, from that furrow into the nearby
one of story-telling) I used to be prone to insert into various raves
on this list...

...anyway, that Mises, Ludwig von:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Von_Mises
whose beloved gold standard would have certainly not supported the
wild machinations in credit markets we see (or so his supporters
say...)

had a brother, Richard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Mises

who was what might be considered a person of interest in several ways,
being a prominent Viennese, a mathematician who co-authored a paper
dealing with Riemann,
(Richard von Mises, Philipp Frank, Heinrich Weber, Bernhard Riemann,
Die Differential- und Integralgleichungen der Mechanik und Physik,
1925, 1930.)

 a person who exiled himself to Istanbul (maybe met Crouchmas?) to
avoid repercussions for his Jewish ancestry (though he was converted
to Roman Catholicism), a scientist who came to the USA (flying coach,
not "Von Braun class"...)

but also, clinchingly,
"His literary interests included the Austrian novelist Robert Musil
and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, on whom he became a recognized
expert."

...now if he had only taught at Cornell...

-- 
 - "...Weed Atman, preoccupied with the darker implications of a paper
on group theory he'd just been reading, came woolgathering and
innocent..." (206