#37601 - 04/14/10 07:00 PM
Re: What are you reading right now?
[Re: TheInsane]
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Zophos
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Registered: 03/28/10
Posts: 115
Loc: U.S.A.
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My amount of reading has been rather small due to an especially busy semester, but I've managed to keep a few embers burning.
Last summer while at a used and rare bookstore in London, I had the good fortune to stumble upon quite a large collection of books from the library either of Marie Boaz Hall or her husband, A. Rupert Hall. Among them was a copy of the exceedingly rare Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow, printed in 1864 and edited by none other than the brilliant William Whewell. Excepting a few pages, this particular copy had never been read by another person, and thankfully was untranslated from the Latin. Although not cheap (£80, or ~$125 at the time), I would later find that the cost was an astonishing bargain in comparison to its usual running price (~$450-600). My pet project has been to go through and make sense of the book, using Before Newton: The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow (purchased at the same bookstore, no less) as a guide to contextualize the material by Barrow himself.
In other news, two mathematical works have been at the forefront lately: Paul J. Cohen's Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis and Anderson and Feil's A First Course in Abstract Algebra. I've also been working irregularly on Arthur Schopenhauer's masterpiece, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, but my workload has presented a continuous distraction.
Z.
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Nihil sit tam infirmum aut instabile quam fama potentiae non sua vi nita.
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#40250 - 07/14/10 03:52 PM
Re: What are you reading right now?
[Re: ceruleansteel]
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Dakota
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Registered: 12/23/09
Posts: 60
Loc: Michigan
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I'm Okay- You're Okay
The Idiot's Guide to Investment
And some book about music
Also bought The Satanic Witch
Edited by Dakota (07/14/10 03:53 PM)
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#40427 - 07/18/10 06:01 AM
Re: What are you reading right now?
[Re: Zoid]
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Michael A.Aquino
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Registered: 09/28/08
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Loc: San Francisco, CA, USA
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Walt Disney's Railroad Story by Michael Broggie [again, as I re-read many cherished books periodically].
Walt Disney was a master magician, of course, and in many different ways. His fascination with railroads was one of his deeper interests, resulting in an extensive home layout, the Carolwood Pacific, and of course the elegant vintage railroad circumnavigating Disneyland. Lilith and I particularly enjoy peaceful trips in Walt's private parlor car, the "Lilly Belle", which is a welcome haven when the Park is packed.
This elegant book by the son of Walt's close RR friend and collaborator Roger Broggie (a "Disney Legend" recipient) shares this secret magical universe with the reader. You will never think of Walt, or Disneyland, the same way again.
For example, the famous statue of Walt and Mickey Mouse at the Hub actually shows Walt giving a RR hand signal known as a "highball". [One of the more bizarre rumors was that upon his death Walt was secretly bronzed as that statue. A friend commented, "Bummer for the Cast Member playing Mickey that day!"]
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Should I have known that? lol. I will have to look into them eventually out of sheer curiosity. I wonder what my poor jewish boyfriend would say....lol, thank goodness it's only his ethnicity and not his religion.
