[UA] God in the Machine

[Walter Croft]

>Susan Dohnim" wrote:
>
>I find myself forced to make the obligatory reference to the movie "Pi" -- 
>though I'm sure all of you have seen it already. If through some twist of 
>fate you have not, and the above intrigues you as a UA plot idea . . . 
>you've got to check it out.
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>
>Pi was good. The director was excellent and the movie on the whole was very good. But as a mathimatician myself I have to point out that we (!) don't think or do math like that. In fact I have yet to see a mathematician on film that is even remotely believable. A friend of mine described the revelatory proccess of mathematics as an almost religious experience.
>
>
>Nick Vlaseros
>

Yes, I agree with your points about mathematical discovery, Nick. And yes, I've seen Pi, and enjoyed it greatly. I didn't remember it until after I had posted that message.

This is a recent (as in concurrent to this UA thread) reply from a member of another mailing list I'm on about modern/postmodern literature (Spiral Bound mailing list, BTW):

"Three is a Magic Number 
Music & Lyrics: Bob Dorough 
Sung by: Bob Dorough 
Animation: Focus Design, Inc. 

Three is a magic number. 
Yes it is, it's a magic number. 
Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity 
You get three as a magic number. 
The past and the present and the future, 
Faith and hope and charity, 
The heart and the brain and the body 
Give you three. 
That's a magic number. 

It takes three legs to make a tri-pod or to make a table stand. 
It takes three wheels to make a ve-hicle called a tricycle. 
Every triangle has three corners, 
Every triangle has three sides, 
No more, no less. 
You don't have to guess. 
When it's three you can see it's a magic number.... 

Don't forget how the number 9 (the Cube of 3) is equally as magical 
and full of mathematical/literary/mythological/liturgical trivia, 
symbols and connotations. Hopefully someone can find something 
referential on this, too."

The disussion thread is on Dante and Kabbalah and.... magic numbers.

Is somebody gaining charges from mailing lists with "coincidentially" similar topics!

Walter
 

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