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(In fact, she said that for all she knows all of the data given this evening is gibberish. We have no math books in the apartment. Few people have seen Roger’s list, and none of these with one exception knew any math. The exception is my brother Bill, who looked at the questions briefly last week on a trip through Elmira, from Rochester, where he lives, to Sayre, Pennsylvania, where our mother lives. He could shed no light on the questions, and gave us no definitions, etc.
(All of which is not to say that Jane and I haven’t encountered math in some form(s) in our daily lives, probably at times without being conscious of this. We have read about relativity, for instance, in popular paperbacks, and some other paperback books on a variety of subjects that might have included various kind or examples of mathematical formulas, etc. In other words, our contacts with math have been about average, we estimate.
(Jane doesn’t know who the little man she described, is. We agreed that we know so little about math that even if this data received tonight is all wrong, we wouldn’t be able to intelligently discuss it with anyone who knows math.
(Needless to say, neither Jane or I know math; I may know a little more than Jane, but I couldn’t explain an integer to her at break this evening, for instance. A few phrases that came through in the data had a familiar ring to me, but Jane said they meant nothing to her.
[...] Carl studied math for two years in college; reading the first session, he said that the ideas presented by Jane in trance made sense to him; he cited some examples to us and worked out some figures, especially concerning quadrants, and drew some diagrams. This proved interesting to us and we understood it while Carl was speaking; later however because of our lack of background in math we found it difficult to recall what Carl had said.