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

[Ray Easton]

Joseph Tracy wrote:
> “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.”
>
> If the" foundational crisis" is not being referred to in that 
> statement, what is?
>

> Engelhart is simply reinforcing the idea summarized in the quote that  
> Pynchon is mapping the foundational crisis onto this larger crisis. 


The statement that there is a mapping is not itself a mapping.  It is 
the existence of an actual mapping in the novel that I am questioning.


Ray