Andrew ShieldsApr 4, 2025
On not remembering much about my 1992 visit to the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics in the Black Forest. #111Words #Oberwolfach #BlackForest #MicheleSantamaria #Poetry #Mathematics #PaulShields #LempelZiv https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/on-not-remembering-much-about-my-1992.html
On not remembering much about my 1992 visit to the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics in the Black Forest

Recently, I thought about writing about visiting my mathematician father, Paul Shields, when he was at the Oberwolfach Research Institute fo...

Andrew ShieldsNov 10, 2022
My father is introduced by Toby Berger to Carl Sagan. #111Words #PaulShields #TobyBerger #CornellUniversity #InformationTheory https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2022/11/my-father-is-introduced-by-toby-berger.html
My father is introduced by Toby Berger to Carl Sagan

In the late seventies, my father Paul Shields did research in information theory with Toby Berger at Cornell University, ...