Atd : page 542---starts on page 524.Big Ass Spoiler

[kelber at mindspring.com]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Anville Azote <anville.azote at gmail.com>

>
 (The only place in the anecdote books in
>which Feynman mentions Riemann anything is one point when he suffers a
>bout of insomnia and works out a few formulas related to the Riemann
>zeta function.)  Looking through them, I see "Riemann integrals" being
>applied to "Feynman path integrals" --- what a shock, mathematical
>techniques named for two different people being related!  What does
>this have to do with the character of Kit Traverse?

I don't think anyone's suggested that Kit is a stand-in for Feynman.  Rather that TRP may have had works by or about Feynman in mind at various points during the writing process.  In terms of the Feynman anecdote you describe, isn't there a similar instance in the book where Yashmeen lies awake thinking about the Reimann zeta function?  That doesn't make her a stand-in for Feynman either.  TRP obviously did a vast amount of reading on math and physics while writing ATD.  Why is it a surprise that his readings would filter into his book in what someone here (Monte?) called "tight" and "loose" analogies?

Laura