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- Subject: Re: Gleanings (76)
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- > 9) Roger Penrose (Tushar)
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- Physicist at Oxford. Did work in relativity, cosmology etc,
- also interested in silly math problems and games. Succesfully
- conned (I think) the public by writing "The Emperor's New
- Mind".
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- >12) Amy Lynn Hull/Maurits Escher (Tushar)
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- Who Amy Lynn Hull is will remain a mystery. We have very little
- to go on. She probably likes smileys, and her opinion on circular
- logic is that it makes one dizzy. Escher was famous as a graphic
- artist who produced weird pictures, like drawing hands, mobius
- ant, belvedere, and other pictures which you can see on the T-
- shirt of every well-dressed geek. I think I was referring to the
- never-ending staircase (or some such name), which by an odd co-
- incidence was suggested to Escher by Penrose.
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- tushar
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