I knew John. We did a bit of work together when he was living here. He has a way with words: "Paradigms Lost", one of my favorite book titles!
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 9:17 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.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy emergentdiplomacy.org Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA [email protected] <[email protected]> mobile: (303) 859-5609 skype: merle.lelfkoff2 twitter: @Merle_Lefkoff
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