Free Samples (IV)

Further crunchy goodies, smacking of epigrams.  Click to read the containing essay.

The continuum itself is among the most mysterious of mathematical objects;  it is, after all, the eponym of the spectacularly counterintuitive status of the Continuum Hypothesis.

 Synge waits until well into his second  volume  to reallylet rip against Realism; and since he was himself very much a mathematical physicist, rather than an empirical experimenter, his testimony must be respected  as coming from within the tent.

The fact that two or more  radically different approaches  each manages to describe the phenomenon of interest,  reassures us that we really do have our arms around this thing. 

United General Dairy wished to enhance milk production, so they called in an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician…

These intricate perfections are the prototypes, whereof our own poor earthbound shantytown is but the fallen, partial, semi-crumbled, quasi-scrambled, half-forgotten misremembered afterimage. 

Itis a slippery slope (we might almost say, a declivity whose slope is infinite) when we admit the reality of the visible world: it quickly drags in all the invisibles wíth it.