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It was described as a book about communication between different lifeforms, and although the content was deemed very boring by one astrophysicist, it also helped launch a field of study called Xenolinguistics.
There was there is a book that someone put out a German mathematician named Hans Freudenthal called Life and Death.
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Episode: How Alien Contact Might Work
It was described as a book about communication between different lifeforms, and although the content was deemed very boring by one astrophysicist, it also helped launch a field of study called Xenolinguistics.
There was there is a book that someone put out a German mathematician named Hans Freudenthal called Life and Death.
Libby included a quote from an astrophysicist that said, it's the most boring book I've ever read. Logarithm tables are cool compared to it.