(The late Mark Steiner, not the late George Steiner.)
See Katherine Neville’s novel The Eight ,
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St. Isidore, whose feast day is April 4 —
Mark Steiner’s book The Applicability of Mathematics
as a Philosophical Problem (Harvard University Press, 2002,
$36.50) is available for free at a website named for St. Isidore.)