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The dictum that everything that people do is "cultural" licenses the idea that every cultural critic can meaningfully analyze even the most intricate accomplishments of art and science... It is distinctly weird to listen to pronouncements on the nature of mathematics from the lips of someone who cannot tell you what a complex number is!

Norman Levitt

Norman Levitt

Norman Levitt

Born: August 27, 1943

Died: October 24, 2009 (aged 66)

Bio: Norman Jay Levitt was a mathematician at Rutgers University. He was born in The Bronx and received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1963. He received a PhD from Princeton University in 1967.

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