On Pynchon's California Novels

[Mark Kohut]

in some sense it can be both but in one old philosophical formulation the distinction
Is expressed like this: Is Math the discovery of truths--reality, --eternally, non-accidently true, NOT like what mankind make build ala technics
.....sorta like Platonic Forms or Kant's notions of space and time. 

Or did we human beings create maths truths contingently,  any or all--even number? In another version of our same universe, it could all be different maths? 


I will repeat that I think the difference between what we might call natural math--giving no real answer to the above because irrelevant--and the math that began with the concept of " imaginary" numbers in math history plays a key role in the meanings of Against the Day. 

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> On Jun 21, 2015, at 6:09 AM, Erik Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "Is math invented by humans, or is it the language of the universe?"
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> Why can't it be both? 
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> Sent: ‎6/‎21/‎2015 10:56
> To: pynchon-l
> Subject: Re: On Pynchon's California Novels
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> If you've not read Hanjo Berressem’s “Life on the Beach", do give it a go. I love it for a bunch of reasons, most of all for its clarity. It's not easy reading, but the author does an excellent job of breaking down all the complexities. 
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> A Projected world? Math. 
> The Great Math Mystery
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> Is math invented by humans, or is it the language of the universe?
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> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/great-math-mystery.html
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> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2015/04/great-math-mystery/
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> http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/does_math_objectively_exist_or_is_it_a_human_creation.html
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>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.berfrois.com/2015/06/on-pynchons-california-novels-sean-carswell/
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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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