Very Half-Totally Wrong, imho.

[Robin Landseadel]

On Mar 20, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Monte Davis wrote:

> Think of his technology, science and math (and history of TS&M) in  
> much the
> same way. Pynchon is more interested in the manifold interpretations  
> and
> implications of "entropy" that Henry Adams and a thousand other
> non-physicists came up with than in the quantity defined by Clausius,
> Boltzmann and Gibbs. Ditto for relativity and spacetime, as I wrote  
> during
> AtDDTA. (And BTW, Robin, not one in a thousand practitioners of CGI  
> knows
> jack about quaternions per se -- while there is a continuity of  
> concept, the
> formalism and terminology have morphed greatly.)

I agree as regards all. What struck me about quaternions was not so  
much whether or not quaternions finally "won" over vectors as the  
irony that they are now in common use to deliver us Shrek and the  
Simpsons and so on. Not to mention the CGI in Harry Potter, one of  
those "Genre Types" AtD parodies.