TP or NP? Trial balloon goes up

[Monte Davis]

Well said. Of course, as one who switched  majors from physical chemistry to
comparative literature. and then a science writer who kept finding mythical
narratives deeply embedded in the aseptic official version of scientific
progress (
http://www.science20.com/monte_davis/field_james_clerk_maxwell-78111 )... I
would say that, wouldn't I?

 

 

From: Alex Colter [mailto:recoignishon at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:25 AM
To: Monte Davis
Cc: alice wellintown; pynchon -l
Subject: Re: TP or NP? Trial balloon goes up

 

I am not so sure that Mathematics is being satirized in AtD, I think perhaps
P. has, since he was a youngun, possessed a very real sort of tension
between a Mathematical or Thermodynamic World-View, and a more romantic
Byron-esque World-View... the anxiety between the two and the various
combats his Psyche engages produce a satirized portrait of Each Hemisphere,
Literary and Scientific... our P. is both Timothy Tox with his Golem &
Vaucanson with his Duck, both are, more often than not, invisible.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
wrote:

That's remarkably silly even for you.


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Subject: Re: TP or NP? Trial balloon goes up

math is P novels is like physics in the big bang theory tv show.

 

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