The Figure
The narrator, along with his pals Dettner and Lasker, are frantically working on a
machine that can bring something back from the future before they’re all called away by
the army to work on some cockroach problem.
I enjoy stories with some personal
connection to myself (and generally award an extra half star). In this case, the
connection is Alfred Tarski, the Polish logician who was the advisor of the advisor of my
own academic advisor, David B. Benson.
Lasker is a mathematician. He specializes in symbolic logic and is the only man I know
who can really understand Tarski.