Comments on: Guerrilla logic: a salute to Mervyn Pragnell

By: Shin-Cheng Mu

Shin-Cheng Mu — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:31:16 +0000

Done! I hope you’ve successfully received the pingback. It’s not a popular blog but at least Chinese readers have something to see when they google Pragnell’s name.

http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~scm/ncs/2009/09/guerrilla-logic-a-salute-to-mervyn-pragnell/

Pragnell doesn’t even have an entry on Wikipedia. Not being a native speaker, I don’t think I’m up to the job. Will you try adding a page for him?

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???????: ? Mervyn Pragnell ?? — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:13:51 +0000

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By: peter

peter — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:03:16 +0000

Anthony — Thanks for the reminiscence. I suspect that universities, and contemporary western society generally, are less friendly to eccentrics than once they were.

Shin-Cheng — Sure! Thankyou.

By: Shin-Cheng Mu

Shin-Cheng Mu — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:30:45 +0000

I found this page through Google after reading Peter Landin’s obituary and being fascinated by what Pragnell had done. Thanks for a good article.

May I ask for your permission to translated this article to Chinese, and put it on my blog? I’d of course place a link to this original source.

By: Anthony Finkelstein

Anthony Finkelstein — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:45:49 +0000

I remember Mervyn from my time at IC. I used to unlock seminar rooms so that he could hold unauthorised meetings. He teetered on that boundary between eccentricity and being, frankly, bonkers. His charm was his complete assurance that you were fully versed in the arcana that fascinated him. In his moments of lucidity he was really interesting and insightful. I hope that Universities still find corners for people like him.