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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

At MOMA, Jack Whitten’s exhibition. Here are his notes to himself in 1972 about what to avoid in making his abstract art.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The Mystery of the Blue Glove by Franklin W Dixon

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

You can’t really ignite a spark. A spark is the thing that ignites something else. OK, I’m not sending my kids to this school.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Robinson Crusoe on discovering the hidden complexity, and the need for tools made by other people that he now does not have, of things he formerly took for granted.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I was waiting for many many years to sky this cartoon By Ted Rall “I was going to kill you. Now I’m not. But I will kill you unless you agree that I just saved your life. “

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Sad but accurate summary from Grants Interest Rate Observer

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Who does Kevin Kline/Otto in the conclusion of a Fisch Called Wanda remind you of?

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Stanley Kubrick‘s Dr. Strangelove. Very worth seeing, with the great Peter Sellers, who first came to fame on the BBC Radio Goon Show.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

And what on earth does this mean on my movie ticket receipt?

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Just got my US copy of @stefanstern's book on Ambition.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I like this way of doing it, from Cape Town a while back

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

@nybooks review of Svetlana Alpers book “Is Art History?”

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

An answer I gave in an interview about my forthcoming book "Brief Hours and Weeks"

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Manin, I am enjoying his book immensely. Even though I’m not a pure mathematician and I don’t understand what he’s saying sometimes, you learn something from him even when you don’t understand him.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Fabulous book, in general, and especially the introduction, which confirms my beliefs about the meaning of the words models, theories, metaphors.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This guy in the article in Quanta Magazine is reading Yuri Manin’s “Mathematics as Metaphor”, a book I stumbled on and bought when I was writing. Models.Behaving.Badly, and was interested in the notion that models are metaphors whereas theories are facts.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

František Kupka “The Colored One” at Guggenheim

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