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[Frank Wimberly]

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That's wonderful, Jon.

On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 10:44 AM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 10:26 AM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Frank,
>>
>> Thank you for your response. As a variant of your statement
>> about mathematics and god, Paul Erdos believed in *the book. *He
>> believed that the book was were god kept all of his most elegant
>> proofs of theorems. He would say to his collaborators, 'Yes, that
>> is a *proof*, but now let's look for the *book* *proof*'. He would also
>> say,
>> 'You don't have to believe in god, but you *must* believe in the book.'
>>
>> I miss the conversations that I would have with Reuben on the train
>> to Albuquerque. It was really great to hear his thoughts on Lakotos,
>> Ukrainian mathematics, Rota, Erdos and Stillwell. We would walk
>> up central when he didn't want to wait for a bus. He would lecture
>> in Jens Lorenz's PDE class. The thai restaurant he liked appears to
>> be closed now. We would catch the train home to Santa Fe and Vera
>> would be waiting for him at the bus stop. What a tremendous love
>> they shared. Reuben's thoughts on mathematics and humanity have
>> left an indelible mark on my thinking.
>>
>> Jon
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