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In 1970 when I was twenty-three years old and living in Buenos Aires, I visited a university in Rio de Janeiro, PUC.1 This was the week before Carnival,2 and I seem to recall hearing the news of Bertrand Russell’s death while I was there. (I have an even more vivid memory as a small boy, of seeing a dramatic headline in red, “Einstein Dead”.)
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Chaitin, G.J. (2002). Introduction. In: Conversations with a Mathematician. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0185-7_1
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