File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 961


From: Patsloane-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 13:53:59 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: PLC: Spinoza's Ethics


> It is clear you are not, nor will you
>  be, a mathamatician. What you are doing is the equivalent of moving your
>  lips when you read, or looking at the keyboard when you type.  ]
>  
Isn't whether a person understands what they're reading more to the point
than whether they move their lips?  I actually do get mathematical insights,
initially in pictorial form.  Like the nth difference of the nth degree is n!
 And if you want, I'll send you an article I'm working on that shows an easy
way to find all square numbers that are also triangular numbers.  The series
begins, 

            1, 8, 49,  288, 1681, 9800, 57121, 332928...

I love number theory. Many artists do. It's very close to the way artists
think.  Granted, I'm not a mathematician. But maybe closer in that direction
than people who don't think visually.  By your reasoning, Pythagoras was not
mathematician either. Just a guy playing with pebbles.  

cheers,

pat


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