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(Long pause. Again Jane said: “Don’t write anything yet, I’m not sure of what I’m getting,” while I wrote it anyhow:) I’m getting the impression of a little man with dark hair, and he seems very far away, so I think he’s in the past; and he has old-fashioned clothes on... a watch chain and a vest... connected with a college, a prestige one like Princeton or Yale; and he worked on mathematical theories, and he suspected, oddly enough, that some integers or numbers had unsuspected values, and he was right.
Now, with him the date 1936. And unless I’m balled up I think 1936 is the year he published or initiated some of his theories. Correctly interpreted, they would lead as mentioned earlier to an unsuspected unpredictability of integers under certain conditions, and the unpredictability is the clue that would lead to the thus-far hidden values. (Pause.)
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The significance of the quadrants has never been clearly understood—there are powers working on the numbers beyond those that you know. (Fast pace.) The unrelated functions bear strong relation (Jane asked me to read this phrase back), to the underlying principles upon which the basic theories of malfunction are formed. Malfunction being the inability of a number in a particular equation to perform its usual service.
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