Is Oedipa Mad?

[Dave Monroe]

Posted this some time back, but, as a reminder, on
Hilbertian "state space decomposition" ...

"Thomas Pynchon supplies us with a further example of 
this in his book 'V.'. If we imagine that we are
looking at the rotation of the Earth about the Sun
from a point in the plane of the ecliptic, from far
enough away that depth information is lost, we would
observe the rotation as motion in a one dimensional
space. We have projected the two-dimensional system of
the Earth's rotation  onto a one-dimensional
subspace--the line crossing through the center of the
sun perpendicular to the line of our observation. Note
that when we talk about these projections, we're
generally talking about the relationship with the
observer--we're not changing the system at all, just
how we're looking at it."

http://www.asis.com/~scotfree/cgi/latex2html/lab/kalm/node5.html

--- Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> if we follow the moving-outward motion, the planned
> Hilbert novel could revolve around the disassembly
> of the universe in some way, seeing as Hilbert was
> investigating the fundamentals of that discipline
> which seeks to depict logically the workings of said
> universe, namely mathematics. Just a shot in the
> dark, but I wouldn't be surprised if the yrs
> 1912-1914 plays a large role, or 1904 or 1922.

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