David Kahn Dies at 93

[pro2rat at yahoo.com.au]

RIP. Punks might honor David by including him in a sort of canon along with Steve Levy.
Codebreakers and Crypto, possibly a good lead-in to the archives.

YMMV!

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” might, says Calaprice, be a compressed version of lines from a 1933 lecture by Einstein: “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.”