Eric Schechter

Nashville, Tennessee

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Political activist since 2006. Recently retired professor of mathematics. Single heterosexual; single women who are interested can see my self-description at http://www.okcupid.com/profile/HeartOnTheLeft. I recently retired from teaching advanced mathematics. At the age of 55 I finally saw what most people know at age 10: that the most important questions in our lives are not mathematical. Even in economics, the math is just window-dressing and quantification; the most basic ideas contain virtually no math. And the most important question of all is, how can we all learn to live in peace together? No math in that at all. In recent years I've been involved in blogging and demonstrating, and