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Yesterday, my brain went kerflooey over a simple mathematical action
Subtraction. That’s simple, isn’t it? Yet at some point in the late afternoon, I lost my ability to subtract one two-digit number from another two-digit number. Over the course of a minute, I wondered if a part of my brain … Continue reading
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Tagged Buffalo Bills, Dallas Cowboys, Green Bay Packers, mathematics, NFL playoff games, Pittsburgh Steelers, subtraction
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The eternal mystery which carries me through the days
The New York Times’s obit for pianist Radu Lupu, sent me back to adolescence and a conversation with my mother. She had been considering what careers might suit her oldest child. (Sorry, Mom, for putting this into parentheses, but years … Continue reading
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Tagged Chamber Music Society, classical music, David Finckel, Galileo, Galileo Galilei, Johan Sebastian Bach, JS Bach, Lincoln Center, mathematics, Radu Lupu, serious music, Sviatoslav Richter, the universal language, Vincenzo Galilei, Well Tempered Clavier, Wu Han
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