ATDTDA (7): 201-203 decoding

[David Morris]

On 4/30/07, Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net> wrote:
>
> What most struck me is rather the "theological" nature of the mathematics being performed in AtD.
>
> Yashmeen seems to think she will achieve some sort of transcendence if she can penetrate into the mysteries of the zeta function.  This is complete nonsense, and TP surely knows that it is complete nonsense

I suppose it seems like nonsense to a math guy in the early 21st
Century, but these dreamers are living in a fairly new math-world, and
its limits are not yet understood.  These young math-seekers are
HOPING for transcendence, much like the young Franz Pokler is when he
first seeks that rocket experiment.  They both dream of "some sort of
transcendence."  And that crazy Math-Museum seems to imply they are
not wrong in their dreaming.

David Morris