A Bygone Era Remembered...

Fantastic new (longish) Nautilus piece from Amanda Gefter on some persons and quirky history you may never have heard of (Walter Pitts and Warren McCulloch). A great read:

http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic


[...and later this afternoon there will be many more reading links for the weekend over at MathTango]