The meaing of mathematics in Against the Day.....

[David Morris]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net> wrote:
> David Morris wrote:
>>>> Are you saying he's quoted the following incorrectly?:
>>>>  “The political crisis in Europe maps into the crisis in mathematics.
 […] The connections lie there […] – hidden and poisonous. Those of us
who must creep among them do so at our peril.
>>>>
>>> No, I'm saying that the use of the phrase "foundational crisis" does not constitute a discussion.  There is no such discussion in AtD, at least that I can recall.

OK, there is no discussion of the foundational crisis,  just a rather
important reference to it as "mappable" with the political crisis in
Europe.  Pynchon obviously expects his readers to do their homework in
the foundational crisis (which I have only barely scratched the
surface, knowing only high-school math).  Clearly both are existential
crises, a crises of uncertainly questioning whether certainty is
possible or whether it even exists.   Now that I think about it a
little more I must retract my earlier statement about this analogy
being trite.  It is certainly not.

David Morris