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He went by "Johnny" ("Jancsi" in Hungarian) his entire life. Here's Freeman Dyson calling him "Johnny" throughout a talk Dyson gave at Brown University: https:
by aerostable_slug 5y ago
He went by "Johnny" ("Jancsi" in Hungarian) his entire life.
Here's Freeman Dyson calling him "Johnny" throughout a talk Dyson gave at Brown University:
https://www.ams.org/notices/201302/rnoti-p154.pdf https://www.ams.org/notices/201302/rnoti-p154.pdf
- not2b 5y agoI know that. Freeman Dyson was his friend. The author of this article was not his friend, so it would be cool to use "Johnny" in a quote. Using it in every reference is weird, false familiarity, kind of disrespectful.
- bzbarsky 5y agoHow do you feel about calling William Jefferson Clinton "Bill Clinton"? That is, was "Johnny" something his friends called him, or what he called himself in general when introducing himself to people? I'm getting the impression it was more the latter.
- eigenvalue 5y agoGreat read, thanks for sharing!