"George Spencer-Brown—born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England 1923—has held a number of occupational roles, such as a mathematician, consulting engineer, psychologist, pilot, educational consultant, author and poet, adviser in military communications (coding and code-breaking), football correspondent to the Daily Express; he even practised car racing with Gavin Maxwell."
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Jenny Helin, Tor Hernes, Daniel Hjorth (2014) The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies, p. 481.
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G. Spencer-Brown
George Spencer-Brown (2 April 1923 – 25 August 2016) was a polymath best known as the author of Laws of Form.
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