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Re: When Herb Bisno Cleaned My clock
I want to add to my previous post, ''When Herb Bisno Cleaned My Clock''. First, some personal history. I am a non-observant Jew. My only year in Hebrew School coincided with the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. As I was precocious when it came to politics, my entire political life has coincided with the existence of Israel. I have ...
Posted to Foreigners by mathpol on January 5, 2009
When Herb Bisno Cleaned My clock
Almost exactly 41 years ago, I visited my friends, Jill and Fred Heilpern, in Eugene, Oregon, where I had been a graduate student, getting my Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1966. This was January, 1968, six months after Israel’s six day war in June, 1967. I was an Assistant Professor at SUNY Stony Brook. One of my closest friends was Hugo d”Alarcao, an ...
Posted to Foreigners by mathpol on January 4, 2009