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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43607 Gender:	Re: New books Reply #30 - Jul 12^th, 2017 at 5:58pm Oops, yeah, stuffed that up somehow!
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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: New books Reply #31 - Jul 15^th, 2017 at 8:43am Jovial Monk wrote on Jul 12^th, 2017 at 2:47pm: That sounds absolutely fascinating! Must get that one! For now, Andrew Hodges “Alan Turing: the Enigma” will have to do. the movie was on TV not long ago.....what an amazing man........look what we owe him!
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Reply #32 - Jul 15^th, 2017 at 9:15am

Yes, codsy, it was on telly not that long ago.

I am working my way through that book: Alan is at Cambridge right in the middle of a revolution in mathematics and quantum physics and it is heavy going Cry

Forgotten much of that stuff I learned in the 60s!

But fascinating.

On another note: Alan always made it clear he was gay, way ahead of the sexual revolution and the acceptance of homosexuality. Unlike others he did not hide his sexual orientation.

Think I might see if there is a nice book about maths somewhere, algebra, calculus, vectors and tensors, sets and groups, Boolean math etc. Do you know in some of these branches of maths 1 + 2 ≠ 2 + 1? (≠ means not equal.) Would like to brush up my kno

This one might do:
https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Nonmathematician-Morris-Kline/dp/0486248232/r...

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43607 Gender:	Re: New books Reply #33 - Jul 15^th, 2017 at 10:03am Ordered that and another introductory maths book. That is to polish up the knowledge I have. Will be looking to advance my knowledge once the introductory books are read.
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Reply #34 - Jul 15^th, 2017 at 10:47am

erk... it sounds as dry as old bones...

I guess you would need a head for Moths to read about his struggle... I cant even have a guess at what went on in his mind.....it must drive you crazy after a while....you can never switch it off.....trouble about being gay in those days it was against the law sadly....those stoopid laws must have driven so many to suicide its hard to believe these days isnt it?.....it was almost as bad as witch burning....

anyway good luck with the read.. I would have thought you were more interested in cook books monk? where did I get that idea?

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Reply #35 - Jul 15^th, 2017 at 12:43pm

Oh, I have like 4m shelf space of cookbooks, codsy, and 1m of brew books.

But I am renaissance man, can do more than two things, tho not at once other than walk and chew gum etc (no, I don’t chew gum, disgusting habit.)

Maths is one of the most beautiful subjects to study, codsy.

I hope to eventually have some maths programs on this laptop to graph mathematical functions etc.

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43607 Gender:	Re: New books Reply #36 - Jul 15^th, 2017 at 4:07pm Hey codsy! https://www.livescience.com/59781-enigma-machine-sells-at-auction.html?utm_sourc... Somebody finds an enigma machine at a garage sale, sells it for $US51K!
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: New books Reply #37 - Aug 31^st, 2017 at 3:57pm I am getting one of the listed books for father's day but I don't know which one. I'm hoping for Istanbul: tale of three cities.
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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 20696 ACT Gender:	Re: New books Reply #38 - Aug 31^st, 2017 at 4:49pm I just bought a couple on the the India/ Pakistan partition as it is the 70 year anniversary. A bit of history I dont know a lot about Train to Pakistan (Khuhswant Singh) and The Great Partition (Yasmin Khan)
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: New books Reply #39 - Sep 3^rd, 2017 at 2:53pm bogarde73 wrote on Aug 31^st, 2017 at 3:57pm: I am getting one of the listed books for father's day but I don't know which one. I'm hoping for Istanbul: tale of three cities. Boo Hoo!
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Reply #40 - Sep 10^th, 2017 at 1:13pm

New book from John le Carre - a Legacy of Spies.
It's apparently like a retrospective from George Smiley as he works away in a library in Austria.

Fans of John le Carre's spy novels should not miss this interview with him about the final George Smiley novel:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05fd974

But hurry, you'll only get it for the next couple of days. He talks about his time in MI6 & Kim Philby and all that stuff. Apparently there were 13 not 4 known Cambridge spies.

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Reply #41 - Oct 24^th, 2017 at 6:49am

Mikhail Gorbachev, His Life & Times by William Taubman.

The author had eight 2 hour interviews with Gorbachev over a period of about 10 years, as well as many meetings with former aides.
The general consensus is that Gorbie was a thoroughly decent man, but we all know politics is no place for decent men.

Discussion:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/gorbachev/9038372

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Reply #42 - Nov 4^th, 2017 at 6:12pm

On my list !

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Over 650 pages, he builds up a portrait of Freud as the most vile, medically useless, misogynistic, snobbish, petulant, jealous, crazy, sex-obsessed creep you could ever hope not to look up at from a couch — and a man whose ‘treatment’ you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy

About time!

Freud spelled Fraud

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-5044817/Was-Freud-really-just-sex-mad-old-fraud.html

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Reply #43 - Nov 18^th, 2017 at 11:46am

The Fate of Rome: climate, disease and the end of Empire - Kyle Harper

This sounds really interesting because it is based on new knowledge not available to the earlier historians.
For instance, they are able to tell that there were two major plagues - one in the 3rd century that may have been Ebola and one in the 6th which was definitely Black Plague.
The population of Rome fell from its high of 1 million (which was never to be equalled in the West until London in the 19th century) to around 200,000.

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: New books Reply #44 - Nov 19^th, 2017 at 2:13pm I'm always saying this but this time I really mean it . . .this sounds interesting: Life of Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson.
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