REF: I. Lakatos: "Proofs and Refutations", 1976; William Higginson: Mathematical Teaching, No. 90, March 1980, pp. 5 - 8 'Ideas of the Seventies' p. 7.
Lamb, Charles------ British essayist, critic
* 10/02/1775 +12/27/1834 *Crown Office Room, Inner Temple, London, + 27/12/1834 Edmonton, England
REF: DAVIESWORLD, p. 188 Chapter 10. 'Supertime'.

Landau, Lev Davidovich ------Russian physicist, 1962 Nobel laureate for physics
* 9/01/1908 Baku, Russia + 1968
REF: BERG, p. 310.
REF: ANTIMATTER, Vol. 6, No. 1, October 1983, p. 174.
* 14/08/1802 Chelsea, England +15/10/1838 Cape Coast, Gold Coast, Africa
REF:
- L.E. LANDON: "Despondency"; BARTLETT, p. 1980,
p. 492 No. 9.
- Ibid. "The Poor"; Ibid. No. 8.
REF: MUSIC, p. 30.
* 30/01/1775 Warwick, England + 17/09/1864 Florence, Italy
REF: BURGESS, p. 194 'Poverty".
REF:
- PQIOT, p. 477 'Statistics'.
- Ibid. p. 388 .
* 23/01/1872 + 19/12/1946
REF: P. Langevin speaking in December 1938 at a meeting of the French Communist Party; V.S. Gott: "The Amazing, Amazing, Amazing But Knowable Universe:, translation of 1974 original by John Bushwell & Christine Bushwell,PROGRESS, 1977, p. 7.
Lanier, Sidney------American poet, flautist
* 03/02/1842 Macon,Ga. + 07/09/1881 Lynn, N.C., USA
REF:
- MUSIC, p. 45.
- Ibid. p. 12.
Lao-Tzu------- Chinese author of TaoTeChing, philosopher
REF:
- Lao-Tzu: "TaoTeChing", Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974; GALAXIES, p. 1 'Epigraph.
- Ibid. p. 149 'Epigraph'.
- BURGESS, p. 139 'Love'.
- ?

* 23/03/1749 Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy + 05/03/1827 Paris, France
REF:
- J. Allen Hynek: "The UFO Phenomenon: Laugh, Laugh, Study, Study", Technology Review, MIT, Vol. 83, No. 7, July 1981, pp. 50 - 58.
- KLINEMATHS, p. 795 Chapter 33: "Determinants and Matrices" Epigraph.
- ?
- SOKOLNIKOFF, p. 596 Chapter 9: "Probability".
REF: MUSIC.
LaRochefoucauld, Duc de François-------Greatest maxim writer of France, most complete and accomplished representative of ancient nobility
* 15/09/1613 Rue des Petits Champs, Paris + 17/03/1680 Paris, France
REF:
- La Rochefoucauld: "Réflexions au sentences et maxims morales", 1665, Maxims No. 57, 185.
- DFQ, p. 288 No. 18.
- BLUE.
- ?
REF: ?
Laszlo, Ervin------Hungarian philosopher
* 1932 Hungary
REF: E. Laszlo: "The Systems View of the World: The Natural Philosophy of the new Developments in the Sciences", BRAZILLER, 1972, p. 13.

* 06/11/1900
REF: PODOLNY, p. 11 'To the Reader'.
* 11/09/1885 Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England + 02/03/1930 Sanatorium in Vance nr. Antibes, France
REF:
- Colin Wilson: "Beyond the Outsider", PAN, 1966, p. 245.
- BURGESS, p. 156 'Morality'.
- Ibid. p. 193 'Pornography'.
- ?

Lawrence, T.E.-------"Lawrence of Arabia', English writer, army officer, archaeologist
* 1888 + 1935
REF: From a letter to Lionel Curlis; NORTONREADER, p. 909.
REF: BURGESS, p. 74 'Family life'.
REF: BURGESS, p. 3 'Advertising'.
P>
REF:
- CAT, p. 221 'Cheese'.
- Ibid. p. 247 'The time machine from Reticule'.
- Ibid. p. 89 'The Quantum Connection is Unmitigated'.
- Ibid. p. 212 'First Manual-Robot Dyad'.
- Ibid. p. 203 'The Rooms Were Turned Inside out'.

* 28/06/1875 + 26/07/1941
REF: KLINEMATHS, p. 3.
REF: ANALOGSCFIC, Vol. CIV, No. 3, March 1984, p. 101.
REF: S.C. Lec: "Mysli nievczesame", Wydawnictwo Literachie, Krakow, 1954, translated by J. Gulaska: "Unkempt Thoughts", St. Martins, New york, 1962.; PRIMAS, p.1, Chapter 1: "Open Problems of Present-day Theoretical Chemistry" Epigraph.
* 1843 + 1947
REF:
- COMTEDESTINY, p. 111, Book III: "The Evolution of Man", Chapter 10: "Civilization".
- Ibid. Chapter 18: "Universal Thought - The Thinking earth - Recapitulation and Conclusions" Last paragraph.
- Ibid., p. 5 'Preface'.
- Ibid.
Ibid. pp. 111 - 112.
- Ibid. p. 111.
- Ibid. pp 100 - 101.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Ibid. p. 107
- Ibid. pp. 97 - 98.
- Ibid. p. 99.
Lederberg, Joshua -------American geneticist, 1958 Nobel sharing laureate for Physiology or Medicine
* 23/05/1925 Mont Clair, N.J.
REF: The movie starring Dustin Hoffman: "The Outbreak".
REF: BURGESS, p. 50 'Culture'.
REF: BLUE.
CONTINUUM, Vol. 5, No. 9, June 1983, p. 47.

Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm------German philosopher, mathematician, man of affairs
* Leipzig 01/07/1646 + 14/11/1716 Hanover, Germany
REF:
- G.W. Leibnitz: "Mathematische Schriften", 7 volumes, edited by C.I. Gerhardt, Berlin - Halle, 1849 - 63, Vol. VI, pp. 241- 242; G.W. Leibnitz: "Philosophical papers and Letters, translated and edited by L.E. Loemker, Chicago 1956, Amsterdam 1970, 721/441; Margaret D. Wilson: "Leibniz's Dynamics and contingency in Nature" in MACHAMERSCIENCE; reprinted in a slightly revised and abridged version in Leibniz: "Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science", edited by R.S. Woodhouse, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, OXFORD, PaperVIII, pp. 119 - 131 p. 137.
- Bertrand Russell: "A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz", UNWIN, 1937, pp. 108 - 109; H.S.M. Coxeter: "Introduction to Geometry", 1961, 1969, WILEY, p. 186, Chapter 12: "Ordered geometry", Section 12.5 'Continuity'.
- Rick Norwood, The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 2, Spring 1982, pp. 98 - 111, "Monsters and Manifolds" p. 106.
- B.M. Stewart: "Theory of Numbers", MACMILLAN, 1952, 1964, p. 20 Chapter 4: "Number theory in the Game of Solitaire".
- Gottfried Richter: "Art and Human Consciousness", translated by Burley channer and Margaret Frohlich, ANTHROPOSOPHIC, 1985, p. 54.
- G.W. Leibnitz: "Opera Omni", edited by L. Dutens, Geneva, Fratres de tournes, 1768, "D'une lettre de Leibniz à Conti", III, p. 446; Ernst Cassirer: "Leibnitz's System in seinen wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen", Marburg, 1902, pp. 245 sequ., translated by William H. Wigham and Charles W. Hendel: "The Problem of Knowledge: Philosophy, Science and history since Hegel", YALE, 1950, 1974, p. 35.
REF: BLUE.
REF: Shraram Abhyankur in "First Anniversary Souvenir", May 1977, of Bhaskarachanya Pratishthoma, p. 2 "Math Talk'
REF: BURGESS, p. 127 'Liberty'.

* 21/04/1870 Simbirsk + 21/01/1924 Gorki, Russia
REF:
- V.I. Lenin: "Collected Works", PROGRESS, Vol. 38, p. 171; G.B. Zhdanov: "Theory and Experiment in the Physics of the Minoworld", in "Philosophical Problems of Elementary-Particle Physics", edited by Kuznetsov and M.E. Omelyanovsky, PROGRESS, 1976, Vol. 33, p. 318; Galina Kirilenko and Lydia Korchanova: "What is Philosophy (ABC of Social and Political knowledge), PROGRESS, 1985, p. 202.
- BURGESS, p. 108 'Imperialism'.
- V.I. Lenin: "Materialism and Empirico-Criticism", PROGRESS, 1976, Vol. 14, p. 110, p. 142; Galina Kirilenko and Lydia Korchanova: "What is Philosophy (ABC of Social and Political knowledge), PROGRESS, 1985, p. 165.
- George Steiner: "Marxism and the Literary Critic", Encounter, Vol. 11, November, 1958. Reprinted in LITERARYTASTE,Vol. 25:, edited by Peter Davison, Rolf Meyersohn & Edward Shils"Literature and Society", pp. 93 - 103 p. 93.
- V.I. Lenin: "Collected works", PROGRESS, Vol. 14, p. 130; Vasily Krapivin: "What is Dialectical Materialism? (ABC of Social and Political knowledge)", PROGRESS, p. 101.
- Ibid. p. 175; Ibid. p. 103.
- Ibid. p. 103.
- "Reminiscences of Vladimir Ilyich lenin", Vol. 2, p. 268; "Lenin: A Biography", translated at the institute of Marxism-Leninism", PROGRESS, 1965, 1966, 1983, p. 410.
*1940 +1980 New York, USA
REF: CONTINUUM, Vol. 7, No. 6, March 1985, p. 42.
REF: UNIVERSITAS, Vol. 23, 1981, No. 1, p. 8, No. 4, p. 272, No. 3, p. 224.

* 15/04/1452 Vinci, Florence, Italy + 02/05/1519 Castle of Cloux nr. Amboise, France
REF:
- LEONARDO, Vol. II, p. 290, No. 1159; Carl Sagan: "Other Worlds", produced by Jerome Agel,BANTAM, 1975, p. 28.
- Ibid.
- LEONARDO Vol. II, p. 295, No. 1180 'Morals'.
- Ibid. pp.288 - 289, No. 1153 "Philosophical Maxims'.
- Ibid., p. 288, No. 1147; LIOT, p. 28 'ART', p. 280 'Knowledge'.
- Ibid., p. 293, No. 1972 'Morals'.
- Ibid.
- Ibid. p. 293, No. 1171 ;Morals'.
- Ibid. p. 294 'Morals'.
- Ibid.
- Ibid. Vol. I, p. 11 No 3.
- Ibid. Vol. II, p. 289 No. 1158 "Philosophical Maxims'.
- Ibid. p. 289, No. 1157.
- Ibid. p. 289 No. 1155.
- Ibid. p. 293, No. 1170 'Morals'.
- Ibid. p. 288, No. 1951 'Philosophical Maxims'.
- Ibid. p. 285, No. 1135 'Philosophical Maxims'.
- LIOT, p. 377 'Painting'.
- Ibid. p. 342 'Modesty'.
- LEONARDO, Vol. II, p. 298 'Morals'.
- Ibid. p. 287, No. 1145 'Philosophical Maxims'.
- Ibid. p. 290, No. 1160.
- Ibid. p. 290, No. 1161.
- Ibid. p. 288, No. 1148.
- Ibid. p. 194, No. 1175 'Morals'.
- Ibid. p. 293, No. 1169 'Morals'.
- LIOT p. 340 'Mind'.
LEONARDO p. 291 No. 1163 'Morals'.
- Ibid. p. 288, No. 1152 'Pholosophical Maxims'.
- Ibid. pp. 292 - 293, No. 1168 'Morals'.
- Ibid. p. 295 - 296, No. 1183 'Morals'.
- Ibid. p. 288, No. 1150 'Philosophical Maxims'.

* 22/01/1729 Kamenz + 15/02/1781 Brunswick, Germany
?
Albert Einstein frequently quoted Lessing's dictum.
Henry Chadwick: "Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim" in ENCYCEDWARDS, Vol. 4, pp. 443 - 446 p. 445.
REF: LIOT, p. 477 'Statistics'.
* 28/11/1908 Brussels, Belgium
REF:
- Robin Fox: "Encounter in Anthropology", HARCOURT, 1973, PENGUIN1975, p. 1.
- ANALOGSCFIC, Vol. CIV, No. 3, March 1984, p. 164.
- EISELEYPYRAMID, p. 95.
* 29/11/1898 Belfast, Ireland + 22/11/1963 Oxford,England
REF:
- C.S. Lewis: "Miracles", Chapter VII.
- ENGDAHLSUNS, p. 171.
- CONTINUUM, Vol. 5, No. 7, April 1983, p. 118.
- C.S. Lewis: "The Abolition of Man", 1943, 1946, Fount Paperbacks, . p. 43, Chapter 3, 1978.
- Leonard Isaacs: "Darwin to Double Helix: The Biological Theme in Science fiction", Science in a Social Context Series, BUTTERWORTH, 1977, p. 27.
REF: ASIA, Vol. 24, No. A-9, 26/01/1986, p. 4 'Quotes' contributed by Graham Williams, Hongkong.
* 1919
REF: ?
REF: W.H. Auden in the Prologue to "The Dyer's Head", 1966.
* 17/12/1842 Nordfjordeif, Bergen +18/02/1899 Christiania, Norway
REF:Morris W. Hirsch: "The dynamical systems approach to differential equations", Bulletin (NewSeries) of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 11, No. 1, July 1984, pp. 1 - 64 p. 17 Epigraph.
* 1847 + 1935 Berlin, Germany
REF: GOMBRICHART p. 291 Chapter IX: "The Analysis of Vision in Art" p. 431.

* 12/05/1803 Darmstadt + 10/04/1873 Munich, Germany
REF: HOGBENSCIENCE, p. 15.
REF:
- J.C. Lilly: "The Human Biocomputer", BANTAM, 1972; TALBOTMYSTIC, p. 131.
- J. Lilly: "The Center of the Cyclone"; CAT, (a): p. 202, "Another Eigenstate", (b): p. 220, "SURPRISE PARTY", (c): p. 226 "Thre minutes, Forty Seconds".
Champion the right to be yourself
Dare to be different
and to set your own pattern:
Live your own LIFE,
and follow your own star.

Lincoln, Abraham -------American president 1861 - 1865
* 12/02/1809 Rock Spring, Hodgenville, Ky. + 15/04/1865 Washington, D.C., USA
REF:
- ?
- ?
- ?

* 13/05/1707 Rashult, Smaland + 10/01/1778 Upsala, Sweden
REF: C. Linnaeus: "System naturae", 1788.
* 1702 Geneva + 1789 Geneva, Swizerland
REF: J.E. Liotard: "Traité des principes et des règles de la peinture", Geneva 1781, 1945, Chapter I; GOMBRICHART, p. 33, Part I: "The Limit of likeness", Chapter I: From Light into Paint", Note p. 405.Epigraph
REF: ?
* 23/09/1889 New York City + 14/12/1974 New York City, USA
REF: RTQ, p. 297 441.8 'Ideas'.
REF: Lawrence S. Dillon: "The Science of Life", MACMILLAN, 1964, p. 218.

Liszt, Franz-------Hungarian pianist, composer
* 22/10/1811 Raiding, Hungary + 31/07/1886 Bayreuth,Germany
REF:
- MUSIC, p. 39.
- Ibid. p. 47.
- ?
- 75 Years Deutsche Gramophone Selection, 1970/74, p. 24.
- F. Liszt 1838; BANGKOK, 29/10/1978, Special Feature: "Keyboard", p. 15.
REF: UNIVERSITAS, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1981, p. 64.
REF:
- Robert M. Hutchins: "The Great Conversation: The Substance of a Liberal Education", GREATBOOKS, Vol. 1, p. 2 - 3 Chapter I: "The Tradition of the West".
- Ibid. p. 48 Chapter VI: "Education for All".
* 59 A.D. Padua +17 P.D. Padua, Italy
REF: ?

* 02/11/1793 Makariev, Nizhniy-Novgorod + 24/02/1856 Kazan, Russia
REF: COXETERPOLYTOPESpp. vi - vii 'Preface to First Edition'

Locke, John ------English philosopher
* 29/08/1632 Wrington, Belluton, Sommersetshire + 28/10/1704 High Laver, England
REF:
- BURGESS, p. 85 'Gentlemen'.
- J. Locke: "Of the Conduct of the Understanding", 1706.
- GREATBOOKS35, 89.
- Ibid., Book IV, Chapter III, Section 20,35, 319
- Ibid., Book IV, Chapter III, Section 20, 35, 93; Alexander Campbell Fraser, OXFORD, 1894, DOVER, 1957, Vol. 1, pp. 25 - 36.
- Ibid. 35, 93; Ibid. pp. 25 - 26.
- Jacek M. Zurada: "Introduction to Artificial Neural Systems", Info Access Dustribution Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 1992, West publishing co., p. 389, Chapter 7: "Matching and Self-Organizing Networks" Epigraph.
REF: B.F.J. Lonergan: "Insight", Harlow: Longman, 1958, p. 683; John Polkinghorne: :The Faith of a Physicist", Physics Education, Great Britain, Vol. 22, No. 1, January 1987, pp. 12 - 14.

* 27/02/1807 Portland, Mass. + 24/03/1882 * Cambridge,Mass., USA
- H. Longfellow: "Haiwatha".
- BLUE.
- MUSIC, p. 11.
- Ibid. p. 3.
- DAVISWORLD, p. 186, Chapter 10: "Supertime".
- Ibid., p. 183.
- H. Longfellow: "Hyperion", 1839, 1.7; ITQp. 174 #277.48.
Longinus, Cassius -----Greek rethorician, philosophical critic
* 213 + 273
REF: C. Longinus: "On the Sublime"; Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Selected Poetry", edited by Harold bloom, , 1966, p. xxvi 'Introduction'.
Lopez-Ibor, Jean-------Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Madrid, Spain
REF: TIMELIFE, "The Scientist", edited by Henry Margenau, David Berganimi and Time-Life editors, p. 113.
* 1903
REF: GOMBRICHORDER. p. 2.
* 21/05/1817 Bautzen + 01/07/1881 Goettingen, Germany
REF: John Henry Muirhead: "Contemporary British Philosophy", London, 1924, p. 15; DURAND, p. 5, Part I: "Introduction", Chapter I: "The Lure of Philosophy", Section III: "Theologians".
REF:
- CAT, p. 73 Epigraph to "Yo Have Locks on the Door".
- Ibid. p. 125 Epigraph to "Murphy's Religions".
- Ibid. p. 99 Epigraph to "Another C.I.A. Plot"; F. Lousewart V. : "Unsafe Wherever You Go".
- Ibid. p. 149 Epigraph to "Ulysses at Home".
- Ibid. p. 210 Epigraph to "The Squirrel".
- Ibid. p. 146 Epigraph to "Is Vlad a Symbol?".
- Ibid. p. 162 Epigraph to "To Cross Again".
- Ibid. p. 134 Epigraph to "Nothing".
- Ibid. p. 190 Epigraph to "An n-Dimensional Klein Bottle".
- Ibid. P. 64 Epigraph to "Louses in the Skidrow Dimehaunts".
- Ibid. p. 208 Epigraph to "Funny Valentine".
- Ibid. p. 169 Epigraph to "The Value of the Content".
- Ibid. p. 97 Epigraph to "The Mad Fishmongers".
REF:
- B. Lovell: "The Anthropic Principle; ECCLESMYSTERY, p. 32, Addendum to Lecture 2: "Origin and Evolution of the Universe".
- B. Lovell: "A Contemporary View of Man's Relation to the Universe", a lecture delivered on 13/10/1977 at St. Johns , Newfoundland; ECCLESMYSTERY, p. 32, Addendum to lecture 2: "Origin and Evolution of the Universe".
- Ibid. p. 32.
B. Lovell: "The Anthropic principle"; Ibid.
B. Lovell: "In the Centre of Immensities", Hutchinson & Co Ltd., London 1979, Granada Publishing Ltd, London, Toronto, Sydney, New York 1980, p. 157 Chapter 9: "Human Purpose and the Progress of Civilization".
ECCLESMYSTERY, p. 32 Addendum to Lecture 2: "Origin and Evolution of the Universe".
* 22/02/1819 Elmwood, Cambridge, Mass. + 12/08/1891 Elmwood, USA
REF:
- Lewis L. Wolberg & John Kildahl: "The Dynamics of Personality", GRUME, 1970, p. 73.
- FOXENTOMOLOGY, p. 134 Chapter 5: "Maintenace Systems".
- BLUE
*1803 +1865
REF:
- PQIOT, p. 272 'Judgement".
- Ibid., p. 283 'Language'.
- Ibid., p. 249 'Hope'.
- Ibid. p. 436 'Questions'.
- Ibid. p. 83 'Christian/Christianity'.
- ?
- ?

* 99 A.D. +55 A.D.
REF:
- GALORCOSMOLOGY, p. 308 Epigraph.
- Lucretius: "De rerum natura", translated by Cyril Bailey, CLARENDON, 1972; GALAXIES, p. 127 Epigraph.
- Lucretius:"De rerum Natura", translated by R.E.Latham, 1951, Book I, Lines 455 - 465; R.E. Latham: "Lucretius: On the Nature of the Universe ", PENGUIN, 1951. pp. 40 - 41; G.J. Withrow: "The Natural Philosophy of Time", CLARENDON, 1980, p. 36 Footnote.
- Lucretius: "De rerum natura"; RIORDANQUARK, p. 20.
Lukács, George-----Hungarian Marxist philosopher
* 13/04/1885 Budapest +1971 Budapest, Hungary
REF: G. Lukács: "Geschichte und Klassenbewusztsein", Berlin, 1922.

Luther, Martin-------German religious reformer
* 10/11/1483 Eisleben + 18/02/1546 Eisleben, Germany
REF: BLUE.

REF: A.A. Lyapunov: "Problems of Theoretical and Applied Cybernetics", Moscow, 1980; I.S. Shklovsky: "Extraterrestrial Civilizations and Artificial Intelligence", Cybernetics Today: "Achievements, Challenges, Prospects", translated by Felix Palkin, Valerian Palkin, MIR, pp. 333 - 355 p. 337.
Lynd, Robert Staughton -----US sociologist
* 26/09/1892 New Albany, Indiana, USA
REF: BURGESS, p. 184 'Poetry'.
REF: BLUE.
BURGESS, p. 22 'Books'.