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(1997) Indiscrete thoughts, Dordrecht, Springer.

The lost café

Gian-Carlo Rota

pp. 63-86

One morning in 1946 in Los Angeles, Stanislaw Ulam, a newly appointed professor at the University of Southern California, awoke to find himself unable to speak. A few hours later he underwent dangerous surgery after the diagnosis of encephalitis. His skull was sawed open and his brain tissue was sprayed with antibiotics. After a short convalescence he managed to recover apparently unscathed.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-4781-0_6

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Rota, (1997). The lost café, in Indiscrete thoughts, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 63-86.

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