To: Jeffrey(leevacationfpgmail.com] From: Brian Boyd Sent Mon 5/14/2012 10:36:41 AM Subject Re: RE: Re: Yes, very well. On 15/05/2012, at 4:05 PM, Jeffrey wrote: Does he speak English Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone On May 13, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Brian Boyd wrote: Stanislas Dehaene a Professor at the College de France, and director of Neurospin, as well as author of The Number Sense, is certainly first rate. He began his training as a mathematician (as you'd see from Wikipedia) but the work he's known for has focused on how the brain processes number and letters in math and reading, and how evolved aspects of the brain, which clearly did not evolve for these very recent functions, have been "recycled," as he puts it, for these new uses. If these things interest you, he da man. Maybe Martin could become interested in the math of neuroscience (and also the neuroscience of math), if he's not already! B From: Jeffrey imailto:[email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 7:49 a.m. To: Brian Boyd Subject Re: I'm in Paris , if you think there is a person of interest Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone On May 13, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Brian Boyd wrote: As I think 1 told you, the Radcliffe literature and biology workshop I attended just before meeting you was for me rather flat, not up with the play. My best two days were the next, meeting you, Martin, and Howard Gardner in the morning, and spending the evening with Naomi Pierce of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and her biologist friends, and the next day talking to Martin, speaking in his institute, and attending the Society of Fellows dinner EFTA_R1_00296020 EFTA01882397