Re: The true origin of Magdalenian

On Dec 10, 11:17 am, Richard Herring <junk@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

No, stating that I am not a historian of mathematics. Can you not see
the difference?

The history of a science _is_ the science, Goethe
wrote. Made me wonder for decades. Meanwhile
I believe to know what he meant. Ideas change,
today's truth becomes tomorrow's error, while
obsolete ideas resurface. Einstein finished off
with the concept of an ether and replaced it by
a space-time continuum; now it seems that his
space-time continuum is represented by a particle,
one particle per a large volume, kind of a very thin
gas, in other words: an ether. String theorists are
delighted by the Brahmanic idea of sound as origin
of the universe (also compare the mantra Om to
Homo as the humming animal). Plato believed
that the world we perceive is but a shadow of the
real world; now Lisi Ytzak postulates that the world
we perceive (three dimensions of space, one of
time) is a shadow of a higher universe (four
dimensions of space, two dimensions of time).
He identifies the elementary particles with the nods
of the mathematical object E8 (Pythagoras: All is
number) and predicts the properties of twenty new
particles that spring from not yet occupied nods.
Tests will come about with the reopening of CERN,
when the new and stronger collider will "begin to
sing." Eric Hornung described the origin of the
world according to one of the ancient Egyptian
myths in such a way as to evoke the vacuum of
quantum physics, and the big bang of cosmology:
in the begin was the utter darkness Keku Semau,
there was nothing, no light, no living beings, no
object, no space, no time, just kind of an empty
sea with hovering mud particles, then these
mud particles agglomerated and rose as the
Primeval Hill above the waters, the heron Benu
Benu stood on top of the mound, did his loud cry,
the hill opened up and released the sun god Ra
and the sky goddess Nut ... Benoit Mandelbrot,
one of the founders of fractal geometry, mentions
a medieval depiction of God as creator (stooping,
holding a pair of compasses, the earth a circle
with a fractal confinement), Leonardo da Vinci's
deluge drawings, and Hokusai's wave. Everyone
who makes a discovery in a scientific field goes
back in time and finds a surprising anticipation.
Science includes the history of science. You can't
know about eigenvalues without having an idea
about the origin of mathematics. Or, the other way
round; your understanding of modern mathematics
becomes deeper and more fecund if you have
a proper understanding of the origins.

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