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Kevin Byrne's avatar

What an extraordinarily strange and wondrous thing for a mathematician to write. I loved it . Did you actually write it? Or was it a forwarded writing?

Kevin (No Angel here! But my guardian angel hunts.)

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Peter Graziano's avatar

Thank you! And yes, I wrote it. Mathematics arose out of mysticism, and belongs there.

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Kevin Byrne's avatar

You, Pythagoras-the-pagan-priest and Plato --- what a team!!! Still it is very difficult to think of anything "mystical" in Uncle Bertie Russell, although demons are masters of disguise. Maybe old "footnotes to Plato", A.N. Whitehead, was the actual demon.

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