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Would love to read any of the scientific papers that McCarthy supposedly edited diligently, should anyone happen to know of some. Very curious to see what they

• ddawson 1y ago
  Cormac McCarthy was deeply interested in physics and mathematics and was a trustee at the Santa Fe Institute, which has a heritage connected with Los Alamos National Laboratory. I don't know a lot about this side of him, only reading about it after reading his last two novels which do show a mastery of physics that really seemed to mirror his master of bridles and guns and culture in the old west. I don't remember reading that he had actually published any of this himself but he was spoken of as intensely curious about physics.
• aivuk 1y ago
  Not exactly a scientific paper, but he wrote this essay about language: https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/ https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/
• tehnub 1y ago
  Here’s an economics article at least: https://hbr.org/1996/07/increasing-returns-and-the-new-world-of-business https://hbr.org/1996/07/increasing-returns-and-the-new-world... And here’s a short article about his contribution to that article: https://andrewbatson.com/2016/12/13/cormac-mccarthys-contribution-to-the-theory-of-increasing-returns/ https://andrewbatson.com/2016/12/13/cormac-mccarthys-contrib...