Can you repro FrankWilhoit’s full comment? This guy posts insightful, underappreciated stuff .. i cant figure out what you meant by synergy, for example
Synergy (or dependency) between Wolfram's narcissism and his accomplishments. If this is a real and general dependency, we have seen it go wrong much oftener than right; this is why we need to know whether it is a real dependency and if so, how it works.
I am sorry I mistook you. The next step in understanding Ramanujan would be at the level, not of mathematical intuition, but of intuition full stop. To me, he was first and foremost a creative artist. Had he been a composer I would understand him perfectly. As it is, I do not fully grasp his language but I recognize some things about what he did with it.
> The next step in understanding Ramanujan would be at the level, not of mathematical intuition, but of intuition full stop
Very interesting proposition. At some point, all arts and sciences (and artists and scientists) "meet" at that intuitive level that binds them all - and, us ...
> with as little contact with non-technical people as possible
I enjoyed the anecdote about von Neumann conversing with some colleague's 5-year old child, at which point the colleague idly wondered if JvN might not feel it necessary to employ the very same tolerance and patience and forbearance in their own convos.
The narcissists are the ones who, when St Peter makes the introductions, tactlessly and without regard for potential embarrassment, demand that God explain turbulence?
Poisson on the moon, even. Still, could be worse: even Poisson into the wind isn't as bad as being immortalised with the caption "I'm Nailed Right In".
If LFR were alive today (assuming* the underlying mechanism of war has not changed) perhaps he would take his argument online, in the hopes that people might be able to play with the data in his patiently gathered .xls files and decide for themselves?
Unfortunately, nothing tends to squick the Spiessbürger/petits bougies so quickly as sheets and peace.
pedantry: of course he can't recall, if he's querying for "this Roman general", as they were "these": Titus Veturius Calvinus ac Spurius Postumius Albinus Caudinus
A very good film. I will seek it out again.