against my own statement

I blog again.
First, a preface to a preface. Do you ever have to take a step back from writing to get those “creative juices” flowing again? I do, and for those who don’t know, on the glacier, that means cracking another beer. That having been accomplished, leads me to a preface (by way of a [...]

versus

I know it has been a couple of weeks, but….
I was thinking…
While reading Science and Method the other night, Poincare puts the versus in the field of mathematical speculative theory as a contradiction between Kant and Leibniz. Or, Bertrand Russell relying on logic alone versus an idea of induction and basis in common thought processes [...]

Question

What it the algorithm governing the production of the infinitude of prime numbers?

Set Theory and the Antimony

I was thinking…..
I found this neat little essay on number theory at a Barnes and Noble in the used pile (why there was a used pile at a new bookstore is mysterious, perhaps it was fortune…) called The Continuum by Hermann Weyl, an early Twentieth Century mathematician [the book was published originally in 1918]. In [...]

Mr. Heisenberg, meet Mr. Aquinas

I was thinking. . . but I’d rather start with quote:
But what authority has decided that nature as such must forever remain the nature of modern physics, and that history must forever appear only as subject matter for historians? We cannot, of course, reject today’s technological world as devil’s work, nor may we destroy it [...]