Look up on the Fitness site for the neat article by Linda Schoenberger. Think a lot more people might enjoy the change of Open Water Swimming. It's really exhilherating to do them! JP
New book! This one is grand: Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Matter, by Joseph Mazur (it was a finalist for a 2005 PEN award in nonfiction). Logic, reason, and the plausible (probability), through wonderful vignettes of the author's life:
"Jeremy was only ten when he dived from his father's yacht off the coast of Pine Cay, a private island north of the Dominican Republic owned and managed by his father's exclusive Meridian Club. He snorkeled through the shallow warm, crystal-clear waters to take underwater videos of schools of yellow angelfish and spectacular coral, unaware of the blue shark furtively swimming behind him. A brave fisherman who happened to be nearby rescued him, but not in time to prevent severe injury...."
Jeremy shows up in the author's calculus class many years later, devoted to his Texas Instruments calculator and blissfully unaccepting of irrational numbers. He becomes, for the author, a figural introduction to Zeno's paradox: the swift-footed Achilles, for so he was known, could not win a race with a tortoise if the tortoise were given a head start.
Can't put it down.
"The probable is that which for the most part happens." --Aristotle
:)
VB
New book! This one is grand: Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Matter, by Joseph Mazur (it was a finalist for a 2005 PEN award in nonfiction). Logic, reason, and the plausible (probability), through wonderful vignettes of the author's life:
"Jeremy was only ten when he dived from his father's yacht off the coast of Pine Cay, a private island north of the Dominican Republic owned and managed by his father's exclusive Meridian Club. He snorkeled through the shallow warm, crystal-clear waters to take underwater videos of schools of yellow angelfish and spectacular coral, unaware of the blue shark furtively swimming behind him. A brave fisherman who happened to be nearby rescued him, but not in time to prevent severe injury...."
Jeremy shows up in the author's calculus class many years later, devoted to his Texas Instruments calculator and blissfully unaccepting of irrational numbers. He becomes, for the author, a figural introduction to Zeno's paradox: the swift-footed Achilles, for so he was known, could not win a race with a tortoise if the tortoise were given a head start.
Can't put it down.
"The probable is that which for the most part happens." --Aristotle
:)
VB
