[b]Martin Gardner
All mathematicians share a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. [/b]
I know I would if I were one.
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?
Well, who are we to believe in Him?
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.
Cue, among others, Marx and Engels. And, on the other side, Adam Smith.
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.
Your job: To make sense of this.
The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.
There must be at least a half dozen folks here who will swear that they can tell them.
Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.
Next up: the mathematics of fucking.