As I Have Often Said, Electrons And

Biographical History, As Taught In Our Public Schools, Is Still Largely A History Of Boneheads; Ridiculous Kings And Queens, Paranoid Political Leaders, Compulsive Voyagers, Ignorant General The Flotsam And Jetsam Of Historical Currents. The Men Who Radically Altered History, The Great Scientists And Mathematicians, Are Seldom Mentioned, If At All.

Although Lewis Carroll Thought Of The Hunting Of The Snark As A Nonsense Ballad For Children, It Is Hard To Imagine - In Fact One Shudders To Imagine - A Child Of Today Reading And Enjoying It.

There Is Still A Difference Between Something And Nothing, But It Is Purely Geometrical And There Is Nothing Behind The Geometry.

If All Sentient Beings In The Universe Disappeared, There Would Remain A Sense In Which Mathematical Objects And Theorems Would Continue To Exist Even Though There Would Be No One Around To Write Or Talk About Them. Huge Prime Numbers Would Continue To Be Prime, Even If No One Had Proved Them Prime.

The Violence And Double-talk In The Alice Books Probably Does No Harm To Children, But The Novels Should Not Be Allowed To Circulate Indiscriminately Among Adults Who Are Undergoing Analysis.