Deflating Hyperspace

[Ya Sam]

I believe Pynchon understands pretty well all the maths and science in his 
books, and it's not just  name-dropping for sure, otherwise he would have 
been taken to task by folks in the know. There is definitely a problem with 
languages in AtD ( just one jarring example is the singular adjective 
Sluchainyi after the plural Tovarishchi, which is wrong, and  the word order 
is not very common, sounds pretty funny, should be SluchainyeTovarishchi , 
here is the cyrillic spelling, but most probably it will come out as 
gibberish when posted: Ñëó÷àéíûå Òîâàðèùè). But so far no corrections from 
scientifically minded readers.

>What context does this put the math and science of ATD into?  I mean, when 
>TRP talks about quaternions, Riemann space, and zeta functions, is he 
>merely name-dropping?  Calling forth the atmosphere of the science and math 
>communities of the early 20th century?  Calling forth the atmosphere of the 
>popular understanding of science and math of that day?  How much of the 
>math and science does TRP appear to understand from what he writes in ATD?  
>This is some of the science and math insight those insightless of us could 
>use help with.
>
>Laura
>

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