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Post by thomoz on Dec 24, 2016 20:38:14 GMT
Peripherally related to this subject, I've started buying analog-sourced jazz reissues from a couple key dealers in Japan via eBay - and I'm saving good money while building the collection. I'm sure these don't sound close to the originals but they have to be closer to authentic than the digitally sourced, non-fill pressed crap coming out in the States these days.
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Post by sztiv on Jan 19, 2017 18:48:42 GMT
A Jewish Hungarian or if you prefer a Hungarian Jew the word order doesn't really matter. What a strange bunch that lot can be. Gifted beyond belief, idiosyncratic and eccentric. I never came across Erdős Pál before but then maths isn't really my thing but what an extraordinary wiki entry that is. Thank you.
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Post by gregorythefish on Jan 19, 2017 20:36:40 GMT
if you enjoyed that, the documentary "N is a number" might also be of interest.
apologies to everyone for my lack of presence lately. still listening and collecting, but qualifying exams are in two weeks! yikes!
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Post by sztiv on Jan 19, 2017 23:26:41 GMT
N is a number all seems very familiar, what a great film. My father in law teaches chemistry at the Technical University in Budapest. Leave him alone for an hour with a blank sheet of paper and a pencil and he'll fill it with those weird hexagonal hieroglyphics denoting chemical compounds. Like Erdős he remembers conversations he had 30 years ago and can talk unceasingly about ancient and modern history, geology and whole bunch of other stuff in a way that leaves me feeling bewildered. When you ask him "when did such and such a historical event happen?" he answers with the day, the month and the year. But like Erdős he's always alone, especially when he's surrounded by people.
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