Those Were the Days

The Welsh folksinger Mary Hopkin isn't well-remembered in the States any more, I think. (I didn't know her name myself until a few years ago; the memory of one of her hits and the help of a British LMB listie led me to her.) She had only two hits Stateside, both in the late '60s, though she was more successful in the UK. What I know of her comes largely from her Those Were the Days album, and I'll discuss some of the tracks from that album under the cut.

( Mary Hopkin )

Ramble, Part 30: A Logic of Nouns

Gottfried Leibniz worked on a mathematized logic off and on for much of his career. His most successful work in that direction came in a series of essays which went unpublished in his lifetime; they did not see print, in fact, until late in the nineteenth century. They reflect some of the medieval work on logic, but they also foreshadow some of the ideas which were to fully emerge a century or two later. More under the cut.

( The Algebra of Concepts )

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