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My life as a Communist pervades and colors my life as a mathematician, in ways normally kept silent. The same is true of many others: Dirk J. Struik, Lee Lorch, Jean-Pierre Kahane, Kenneth O. May, Israel Halperin, Reuben Hersh, Steve Smale, and on and on. Maybe a breaking of the silence will be welcomed.
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He never was.
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He was, for a while.
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Davis, C. (2017). Friends and Former Comrades. In: Sriraman, B. (eds) Humanizing Mathematics and its Philosophy. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61231-7_26
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