BRACERS Record Detail for 121752

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1234
Recipient(s)
Blackwell, Kenneth
Sender(s)
Russell, Dora
Date
1973/03/30
Pieces
1
Notes, topics or text

Dora recollects a discussion between J.E. Littlewood and BR in Lulworth about Jourdain in the summer of 1919. "There was an agonized discussion as to whether it would be right to tell a dying man, for his comfort, that his proof was 'right'. Both of them felt they could not, even in that extremity, depart from what they held to be mathematical truth.... Littlewood went to carry greetings and what comfort could be given from both of them."

Permission
Everyone
Record no.
121752
Record created
Dec 20, 2012
Record last modified
Apr 09, 2020
Created/last modified by
rstaple