Type Committee. Various members of the Mathematics Subcommittee were supposed to write different parts of the official code. But they ended up
using my proposal, with minor editorial changes,
as the official code book. That was the Nemeth
Code, 1952 edition. It was published by the
American Printing House for the Blind (APH). In
1956 they reorganized the code book. They made
a separate section at the back of the book with all
the rules not needed until after tenth grade. They
soon realized what a mistake that was. The whole
math curriculum changed when the U.S. wanted
to catch up with the Russians after the Sputnik
launch in 1957. Set theory was moved into the
elementary school curriculum, but the set theory
symbols were at the back of the Nemeth Code
rule book.
Q. If Nemeth Code was proposed to the Joint
Uniform Type Committee for the U.S. and England, why don't they use Nemeth Code in England?
A. I don't know. At some point the Braille Authority, with only three members, became responsible
for Braille codes in just the U.S. Later they added
Canada, and it became BANA (the Braille Authority of North America). I think they should add New
Zealand and Australia to make it BANANA.
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