I went to grad school with John. Known him for almost 50 years. Ed __________
Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) [email protected] 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > On May 17, 2020, at 9:16 PM, Prof David West <[email protected]> wrote: > > By John L. Casti and Anders Karlqvist > > Casti seems to hail from Santa Fe — anybody know him? > > Our conversations involving metaphor and story and science prompted me to > reread this book over the weekend. I would like to highly recommend it to > everyone on the list. > > The subtitle of the book is "stories and myths in the creation of scientific > 'truth'." > > Jon, Frank and anyone else who identifies as a mathematician will enjoy / > find interesting the chapter by Ian Steward, "Secret Narratives of > Mathematics." From the chapter: > > "A proof is a story. Not any old story. It has to take off from the > hypothesis and end by confirming the conclusion. Not end with the conclusion, > by the way — any more than a novel is obliged to end with the hero and > heroine riding off together into the sunset. The story ends when the > conclusion is firmly pinned down. (This is where you stop and put your Halmos > symbol.) > > If a proof is a story, then a memorable proof must tell a ripping yarn." > > Lot's of fun stuff about evolution, computational thinking, algorithmic and > ascetic storytelling, something for everyone interested in science, how > science is done, science as communication, science and prediction. > > davew > > -- --- .-. .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... > ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ -- --- .-. .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
