4 ms·
This is terrific. His comments about Piaget and topology -- how children master topological ideas first, easily -- is particularly wonderful. Also: Boy they ar
by jramo 11y ago
This is terrific. His comments about Piaget and topology -- how children master topological ideas first, easily -- is particularly wonderful.
Also: Boy they are smoking a lot!
- acqq 11y agoSmoking: he died from throat cancer, aged 62, and according to Wikipedia: "cigarette smokers have a lifetime increased risk for head and neck cancers that is 5- to 25-fold increased over the general population."
- rz2k 11y agoAnd, Edward R. Murrow died of lung cancer a couple days short of his 57th birthday in 1965 — this was only a few months before Oppenheimer's throat cancer diagnosis.