Changes

Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079

38 bytes added, 07:04, 19 February 2009
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.
===Endnote 5===
'''N.B.'''<br />
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point
===Endnote 5a===
'''nystagmus'''<br />
talkativeness
===Endnote 6===
'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)'''<br />
==Page 984==
===Endnote 7===
'''bevelling'''<br />
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.
===Endnote 8===
===Endnote 8a===
'''Muscimole'''<br />
dimethylsulfoxide
===Endnote 8 (cont'd)===
'''dickies'''<br />
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. is probably Michael Pemulis.
===Endnote 12a===
'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."'''<br />
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.
===Endnote 13===
'''Quo Vadis'''<br />
==Page 985==
===Endnote 17===
'''datum'''<br />
piece of information
===Endnote 19===
French: A person of terrible importance
===Endnote 21===
'''Q.v.'''<br />
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...
===Endnote 23===
'''U.S.D.D.'''<br />
==Page 1035==
===Endnote 211===
'''suborn'''<br />
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.
===Endnote 321===
'''(1063-1066)'''
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]
===Endnote 324===
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor
===Endnote 324a===
'''loamy'''<br />
==Page 1071==
===Endnote 324f===
'''Orly'''<br />
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.
===Endnote 332===
==Page 1073==
Views
Personal tools