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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Wednesday March 4, 2009

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 am
Markoff Process

“So fearsome was Dr. Schwartz’s early reputation as a mathematician that when John Forbes Nash Jr., the Nobel Prize winning mathematician and economist, learned that he was attempting to solve an extremely challenging mathematical problem…. he became agitated, apparently fearing Dr. Schwartz might beat him to a solution, said Sylvia Nasar, author of ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ a biography of Nash.”

New York Times obituary of Jacob T. Schwartz dated Tuesday, March 3, 2009

 Author of the obituary:
John Markoff.

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March 3, 2009:

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“His background in mathematical algorithms led Dr. Schwartz to develop an early programming language…. The language would later influence the designer of the Python programming language, widely used by programmers today.” —NY Times

“Treatment of Autistic Schizophrenic Children with LSD-25 and UML-491“–

“Autistic schizophrenic children present challenging and baffling problems in treatment…. Many of the children have been followed subsequently into later childhood, adolescence, and adulthood…. Meanwhile, a new group of young autistic children are always available for new treatment endeavors as the new modes become available.”*

Monty Python - Bright Side of Life

Dr. Schwartz died on Monday,
birthday of Tom Wolfe —
who wrote
The Painted Word.

1/16: “It’s all there, hiding behind the realistic side.” –Andrew Wyeth

Related material: The previous five entries.

* by Lauretta Bender, M.D., Lothar Goldschmidt, M.D., and D.V. Siva Sankar, Ph.D., in Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry, 1962, 4, 170-177
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