I
was moved to have philosophical thoughts. Why was the scale of
numbers on the Nazi radio recognizable to me, a Jewish boy? Because
numbers were immutable. Their order was fixe, universally true. Even
Nazis had to comply with them. Well, if numbers were the same for
everyone everywhere in the univerese, didn´t that mean they had to
have been installed in our brains by God? And if so, why- except to
each everyone the nature of truth. It was true, for example, that two
plus two of anything was four. No matter what you applied them to,
numbers, being fixes and eternally what they were and nothing else,
epitomized truth
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| Illustration Marzala Surface Pattern Design |
We
don´t like to fall behind current events in this blog. E.L. Doctorow
died last 21st July; may this entry serves as a humble tribute and a literary recommendation. In fact, I find the author´s point very
convincing. That is the attraction exerted by the study of
mathematics on many prone minds and, paradoxically, also the basis
for the rejection, repulsion or even fear that it causes in other people
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