1000 Ledes n + 20: The Soul of Mere Math

Posted by quinn on March 1, 2010 Comments Off

People react badly to stories like this one about algorithmic composing, horrified the art can be expressed in math. But isn’t it interesting and wonderful to find math can be expressed as art? It it, to me, the best proof yet that the universe might be mathematical, instead of just playing along.

My brief summary and review of A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein by Palle Yourgrau, who believes many modern philosophers are complete dicks to Gödel and that he should be appreciated more, this being Yourgrau’s second book attempting to remedy that.

Posted by quinn on January 29, 2009 Comments Off

Time may be and illusion, and lunch time may be doubly so, but Gödel should have eaten lunch anyway.

(It was good.)