# Giancarlo Rota's reminiscences

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**Created:** [February 7, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/giancarlo-rotas-reminiscences/668 "2022-02-07T23:05:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![jbclements](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/jbclements/32/11_2.png) [@jbclements](https://racket.discourse.group/u/jbclements)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/giancarlo-rotas-reminiscences/668/1 "2022-02-07T23:05:07Z")

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If you have any interest in mathematical logic, and you haven't read Giancarlo Rota's reminiscences of Princeton's math department in the 1950s, and more specifically his homage to Alonzo Church, I would urge you to do so. It is both very funny and very moving.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20150310024937/http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/finding\_aids/mathoral/pmcxrota.htm](https://web.archive.org/web/20150310024937/http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/finding_aids/mathoral/pmcxrota.htm)

Okay, sorry, back to work.