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My Life with Fisher

N. David Mermin

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Abstract

This is based on the after-dinner talk given at the 70th Birthday Conference for Michael E. Fisher at Rutgers in December, 2001. It is longer than the talk, incorporating additional text from the after-dinner talk I gave at Fisher's 60th Birthday Conference at the National Academy in Washington D.C.in 1991.

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To appear in Journal of Statistical Physics, March 2003
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cond-mat.stat-mechStatistical Mechanics

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