Her first great discovery, made in the mid-1940s, was that the language of Linear B, whatever it was, had been an inflected language. That is, that it relied on word endings, much as Latin or German or Spanish does, to impartgrammar to its sentences.
So we really couldn't-- we took inspiration in her work ethic when we were doing this book, for sure. Cancer has been something that has inflected Justice Ginsburg's life. As you may know, she herself has had cancer twice.
What could they produce? Are there other kinds of mathematically inflected objects that might be possible? So I was conceiving this as a kind of exercise at the interface of mathematics, making, and just free-form play.
You can see his magnificent architect's penmanship on display in one of the hundreds of Linear B inscriptions he copied by hand. The leap involved the sets of inflected words he had dubbed Kober's triplets.
And as we learned from writing this book, she knows of which she speaks. The causes she's devoted her life to have also inflected her own life. So obviously, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is more than just a hilarious Jewish bubbe who talks about getting drunk on California
is because in the generational work of bringing up children, white adults today, folks in my age set, we have not had the mentoring by grandparents and parents and aunts and uncles into anti-racism and explicit teaching about race that wasn't inflected with racism, of course, that many times has happened in communities of color, where African American grandparents and caregivers and aunties will actively, for the sake of their children's survival, teach them what race means in their lives.
and Simon Ramo, who founded what would later become TRW. And systems engineering was a system of mathematical, cybernetically inflected virtual relationships that were designed in the informational centers of these design efforts, control rooms they were called, in which the organizational structure of a bunch of people designing something was given explicitly to mirror the physical structure of the thing that they were designing: inputs
He and his friend were both fishermen from the Seychelles. And this guy, Rolly, was about 69, kind of a squat old man who spoke a French-inflected Seychellois Creole. That's Rolly. He and his friend Marc were both fishing about 50 miles out of their home port of the Seychelles.
They were not looking for handouts. is this pressure, self-inflicted, societally inflicted, culturally inflected , that says, if you're not providing the money, the shelter,
And they offer themselves as answers to the riddle of how to live a good or better life. In the unwinding, everything changes and nothing lasts, except for the voices-- American voices-- open, sentimental, angry, matter of fact, inflected with borrowed ideas, God, TV, and the dimly remembered past.
And they offer themselves as answers to the riddle of how to live a good or better life. In the unwinding, everything changes and nothing lasts except for the voices-- American voices-- open sentimental, angry, matter of fact, inflected with borrowed ideas, God, TV, and the dimly remembered past, telling a joke above the noise of the assembly line,