Indiscrete thoughts

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1. svatNov 2024
   Rota's reminiscence (not just the part about Church but the entire webpage, namely "Fine Hall in its golden age: Remembrances of Princeton in the early fifties") is, as the asterisked footnote alludes to, a chapter of his book Indiscrete Thoughts. The whole book is great reading.
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2. jchallisJun 2024
   Would love to hear more about this. Indiscrete Thoughts is one of my favorite books.
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3. nonrandomstringOct 2022
   Indiscrete Thoughts by Gian-Carlo Rota is full of this sort of thing [1]. In fact he made me see mathematics as a unique domain that escapes both empiricism and rationalism. It's real and out there to be discovered timelessly by each civilisation, and yet we make it all up as we go along. There's nothing new under the sun - except the next thing you can imagine.

   [1] https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/345801.Gian_Carlo_Rota

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4. financializeMay 2021
   "Indiscrete Thoughts" by Gian-Carlo Rota (https://archive.org/details/indiscretethough0000rota).
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5. scottlocklinJul 2020
   Rota is sort of the RP Feynman of mathematics; his "Indiscrete Thoughts" was probably the best thing I read in 2019; I recommend it to anyone who enjoys two fisted tales of applied math.
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6. ReraromJan 2020
   Fiction:

   Mordecai Roshwald, Level 7

   Alexander Dewdney, The Planiverse

   Joseph Heller, God Knows

   Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams

   Non-fiction:

   Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man

   Gian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts

   C. S. Lewis, The Discarded Image

   Michael E. Brown, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

   Robert Kegan, In Over Our Heads

   Michael Harris, The Atomic Times

   I may add guilty pleasures like the Legacy of the Force series, but I don't think this is what people here are looking for.

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