It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Monday, June 29, 2015

Alice In Puzzleland: More B'day Gifts For The 150-Yr-Old Girl

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Photo courtesy of the New York Times

"We should all 
  look this good
  on our 150th
  birthday"

    Raymond Smullyan








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Footnotes
The Lewis Carroll School of Logic would not exist
if  it weren't for  Alice In WonderLand.

I would not be confidently teaching a Logic Class now if I hadn't
read the literature of  Mr. Smullyan  forty years ago.

One of his books is entitled What Is The Name Of This Book.

He is ninety-six years old and still treating logic
like silly putty. I am so damn jealous.

Have a nice day, especially you, Mrs. CarPeo.  
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