S. N. AFRIAT on the River Non Il quadrifoglio

“Brief as they are, these poems have a wide range.
They seem to branch into a whole life experience.”
P. Vivante
Austin, Texas, 1963
“… his work is a classic illustration of how much we
learn from new ways of thinking.”
Angus Deaton
Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor
of International Relations
Professor of Economics
Princeton University, USA
“Sydney Afriat belongs to that select group of
economic theorists who have become a legend in
their own times. There is such a thing as “Afriat’s
Theorem”, which has become part of the staple for
students of microeconomic theory. … Moreover, he
may belong to another select group of prose stylists
who are also masters of some aspects of the
mathematical method and its philosophy.”
K. Vela Velupillai
Journal of Economics, March 2004