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On September 30, 1987, I retired from Bell Laboratories 33 years after having been put on the Murray Hill payroll on September 30, 1954—the day I arrived in the USA on the Andrea Doria.
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I don’t know why the date September 30 keeps cropping up in my life.—It was also the date I was kicked out of the Luftwaffe in 1944 (for having missed boot camp) and shoved off to the Kriegsmarine.
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My Zermatt doctor was a descendent of the physician who accompanied the first, ill-fated, ascent to the Matterhorn on July 14, 1865. (On the way down, four of the climbers fell to their deaths.) He was also responsible for keeping the outbreak of typhoid fever in 1963 under wraps.—My broken shoulder he diagnosed as “twisted” until an X-ray in the USA revealed the true state of affairs.
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In his presentation speech the future Chancellor of Germany mentioned that he had heard that I liked good wines. He therefore thought it fitting to nominate me for membership in the Toskana Fraktion (Tuscany Faction). Not following German internal politics, I didn’t know what he meant. Friends had to tell me that Toskana Fraktion designated a (fictitious) club of well-to-do SPD (social democratic party) bigwigs that maintained private villas in Tuscany and generally preferred the “good” life. Thank you, Gerhard!
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On her webpage All the Books I have Known she wrote: I was never terribly interested in number theory, but I regret it now. It is a fascinating subject, and Schroeder’s book is a wonderful place to start. He is highly readable, if prone to corny jokes, but the best thing is his ability to show how obscure statements of mathematics can have far-reaching effects, e.g., how fundamental theorem of arithmetic leads to the well-tempered scale, and other wonderments. His other book Chaos, Fractals and Power Laws is a similarly engaging look at the wide ranging manifestations of chaos, and a good non-technical, though intellectually demanding introduction to the field.
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Schroeder, M.R. (2015). Retirement and Beyond. In: Xiang, N., Sessler, G. (eds) Acoustics, Information, and Communication. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05660-9_24
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