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DGUtley
04-30-2020, 06:13 AM
The Man Who Thought Too Fast - Frank Ramsey—a philosopher, economist, and mathematician—was one of the greatest minds of the last century. Have we caught up with him yet?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/the-man-who-thought-too-fast?utm_source=pocket-newtab


This is an interesting story. I put it in the book and poetry club b/c it was in the New Yorker books section. I am always fascinated by historical great thinkers. This one intrigued me.


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Cotton1
04-30-2020, 06:11 PM
The Man Who Thought Too Fast - Frank Ramsey—a philosopher, economist, and mathematician—was one of the greatest minds of the last century. Have we caught up with him yet?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/the-man-who-thought-too-fast?utm_source=pocket-newtab


This is an interesting story. I put it in the book and poetry club b/c it was in the New Yorker books section. I am always fascinated by historical great thinkers. This one intrigued me.


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I read some bio on him. Interesting person. Had he not passed away at 26 there is no limit to what his contributions to society could have been .

patrickt
05-14-2020, 08:38 AM
I read some bio on him. Interesting person. Had he not passed away at 26 there is no limit to what his contributions to society could have been .

On the other hand, there have been young geniuses who lived long enough to fizzle out.

Common
05-23-2020, 06:18 PM
Ive never heard of him before now...Stephen Hawkings was a loss

Cotton1
05-23-2020, 09:41 PM
Ive never heard of him before now...Stephen Hawkings was a loss

I have seen a few bios on Hawkings and studied a lot of his material regarding Cosmology. He was an incredible intellect.