“
Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
”
”
Thomas Hardy
“
Innocent droplets of rain
Make almost all events
Quite natural.
(from "A Rainy Day")
”
”
Visar Zhiti (The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry (Green Integer))
“
He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.
”
”
Lois McMaster Bujold (Borders of Infinity (Vorkosigan Saga [Publication] #5.1-5.3))
“
God made the integers; all the rest is the work of Man.
”
”
Leopold Kronecker
“
Let them shoot us in the head,
My blood will grow roots
and will blossom.
”
”
Visar Zhiti (The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry (Green Integer))
“
ABYSS
Our country lives
Among the dead
And dies among the living
Sometimes.
”
”
Visar Zhiti (The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry (Green Integer))
“
Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.
”
”
Leah Hager Cohen (Heart, You Bully, You Punk)
“
SECOND SUN
So much blood
Has been spent in this world,
But we have not yet built a sun of blood.
Listen, my friend,
To these trembling words:
A second sun will be born
of our blood
in the form of a heart.
”
”
Visar Zhiti (The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry (Green Integer))
“
SOWING LIGHTNING
Seize
Bolts of lightning from the sky
And plant them in fields of life.
They will grow like tender sprouts of fire.
Charge somber thoughts
With unexpected flash,
You, my lightning in the soil!
”
”
Visar Zhiti (The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry (Green Integer))
“
He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities. I
”
”
Lois McMaster Bujold (Mirror Dance (Vorkosigan Saga, #8))
“
What did we lose, what was lost in us?
To whom do these distances belong that separated us
and that now bind us?
Are we still one
or have we both broken into pieces? How gentle this dust is-
Its body now, and mine, at this very minute
are one and the same
”
”
Adonis (If Only the Sea Could Sleep (Green Integer Books 77))
“
The forest has shrunk
And fear has expanded,
The forests have dwindled,
There are less animals now,
less courage and less lightning,
less beauty
and the moon lies bare,
deflowered by force and
then abandoned.
”
”
Visar Zhiti (The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry (Green Integer))
“
Seven is my favorite number," he said.
"Why?"
He nuzzled gently at her stomach. "There are seven colors in a rainbow, seven days of the week, and..." His voice lowered seductively, "...seven is the lowest natural number that can't be represented as the sum of the squares of three integers."
"Mathematics," she exclaimed, laughing breathlessly. "How stirring.
”
”
Lisa Kleypas (Chasing Cassandra (The Ravenels, #6))
“
Base yourself on what you feel, even when you alone feel it.
”
”
Henri Michaux (Tent Posts (Green Integer) (English and French Edition))
“
Between one and one
Between integer and integer
Is itself’s nothing
The abstract zero.
Between I and I
Between self and self
Is itself’s everything
The abstract Hero
That self may equate to
Or keep ever as two.
”
”
José García Villa (Doveglion: Collected Poems (Penguin Classics))
“
Only learn with reservations. An entire life is not enough to unlearn what you naively, submissively, have allowed to be placed in your head---innocent one---without imagiging the consequences.
”
”
Henri Michaux (Tent Posts (Green Integer) (English and French Edition))
“
THE CURSE
May they never
Return home at night...
May you have no part of eventide,
May you have no room of your own,
Nor road, nor return.
May your days be all exactly the same,
Five Fridays in a row,
Always an unlucky Tuesday,
No Sunday,
May you have no more little worries,
Tears or inspiration,
For you yourself are the greatest worry on earth:
Prisoner!
”
”
Visar Zhiti (The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry (Green Integer))
“
The nineteenth-century mathematician Leopold Kronecker said, “God made the integers; all the rest is the work of man.
”
”
Simon Singh (Fermat's Enigma)
“
Always
there where children die
stone and star
and so many dreams
become homeless.
”
”
Nelly Sachs (Collected Poems I: (1944-1949) (Green Integer))
“
Gud i himlen, kjærligheten er et flygtig stof!
”
”
Knut Hamsun (Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings (Green Integer: 83))
“
Kurt Gödel was the first person to realize and exploit the fact that the positive integers, though they might superficially seem to be very austere and isolated, in fact constitute a profoundly rich representational medium. They can mimic or mirror any kind of pattern.
”
”
Douglas R. Hofstadter (I Am a Strange Loop)
“
Could it be that the planets are castaway heads.
”
”
Visar Zhiti (The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry (Green Integer))
“
When will the death
Of Death ever come?
from "The Siege
”
”
Visar Zhiti (The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry (Green Integer))
“
Om integer te zijn en alleen te kunnen wezen, moet je iets ontdekken dat het de moeite waard maakt ervoor te lijden.
”
”
Willem Frederik Hermans (Nooit meer slapen)
“
In they'd come, integers; out they came, squared.
”
”
Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies)
“
forty-one was a “very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes.
”
”
Arthur C. Clarke (Rama II (Rama, #2))
“
So a)To what extent might human relationships be expressed in a mathematical or logical formula? And b) If so, what signs might be placed between the integers? Plus and minus, self- evidently; sometimes multiplication, and yes. division. But these signs are limited. Thus an entirely failed relationship might be expressed in terms of both loss/minus and division/ reduction, showing a total zero; whereas an entirely successful one can be represented by both addition and multiplication. But what of most relationships? Do they not require to be expressed in notations which are logically insoluble?
”
”
Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
“
Augie. You're a good girl," said Dad. This was more hope than truth. "You're nine and a half."
"NINE," she corrected. She hated how adults never rounded down to the nearest integer when talking to children.
”
”
Zach Weinersmith
“
You remember the footprint
All that is forgotten you remember from eternity
You remember the footprint which filled with death
As the myrmidon approached.
You remember the child's trembling lips
As they had to learn their farewell to their mother.
You remember the mother's hands which scooped out a grave
For the child which had starved at her breast.
You remember the mindless words
That a bride spoke into the air to her dead bridegroom.
”
”
Nelly Sachs (Collected Poems I: (1944-1949) (Green Integer))
“
The Woman Who Forgot Everything
But in old age all drifts in blurred immensities.
The little things fly off and up like bees.
You forgot all the words and forgot the object too;
And reached your enemy a hand where roses and nettles grew.
”
”
Nelly Sachs (Collected Poems I: (1944-1949) (Green Integer))
“
I love you
as if all hearts were a mirror of mine
”
”
Adonis (If Only the Sea Could Sleep (Green Integer Books 77))
“
The root of the word “integrity” is “integer.” It’s a math term - and it refers to whole numbers. The word itself implies “wholeness.” These are the questions we must ask ourselves frequently. “Am I whole?” “Are there parts of my character that are lacking?
”
”
Josh Hatcher (Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity)
“
Since most sexual abuse begins well before puberty, preventive education, if it is to have any effect at all, should begin early in grade school. Ideally, information on sexual abuse should be integrated into a general curriculum of sex education. In those communities where the experiment has been tried, it has been shown conclusively that children can learn what they most need to know about sexual abuse, without becoming unduly frightened or developing generally negative sexual attitudes.
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, for example, the Hennepin County Attorney's office developed an education program on sexual assault for elementary school children. The program was presented to all age groups in four different schools, some eight hundred children in all. The presentation opened with a performance by a children’s theater group, illustrating the
difference between affectionate touching, and exploitative touching. The children’s responses to the skits indicated that they understood the distinction very well indeed. Following the presentation, about one child in six disclosed a sexual experience with an adult, ranging from an encounter with an exhibitionist to involvement in incest. Most of the children,
both boys and girls, had not told anyone prior to the classroom discussion. In addition to basic information on sexual relations and sexual assault, children need to know that they have the right to their own bodily integity.
”
”
Judith Lewis Herman (Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword))
“
an overexertion to which one is driven by inner content is easy to bear.
”
”
Knut Hamsun (The Last Joy (Green Integer Books))
“
Yes, me, I prefer the hourglass so you can smash it when
I tell you of eternity’s lie
—Paul Celan, “[Blinded by giant leaps],” Romanian Poems (Green Integer, 2003)
”
”
Paul Celan (Romanian Poems)
“
With energy there is this difference, that there are no blocks, so far as we can tell. Also, unlike the case of the blocks, for energy the numbers that come out are not integers. I
”
”
Richard P. Feynman (The Character of Physical Law (Penguin Press Science))
“
The integers of death.
”
”
Robert Harris (V2: A Novel of World War II)
“
Men kvinden hun var som alle vise visste før: uendelig ringe i ævner, men rik i uansvarlighet, i forfængelighet, i letfærdighet. Hun har meget av barnet, men intet av dets uskyld.
”
”
Knut Hamsun (Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings (Green Integer: 83))
“
My days are her name
The dreams, when the sky is sleepless
over my sorrow, are her name
The obsession is her name
and the wedding, when slayer and sacrifice embrace
is her name.
Once I sang: every rose
as it tires, is her name
as it journeys, is her name.
Did the road end, has her name changed?
”
”
Adonis (If Only the Sea Could Sleep (Green Integer Books 77))
“
Vi er som brever som er sendt ut: vi befiner os ikke længer under befordringen, vi er kommet frem. Så er det da om vi har hvirvlet glæder og sorger op ved vårt indhold eller vi intet indtryk har efterlat.
”
”
Knut Hamsun (Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings (Green Integer: 83))
“
In the battle between Kronecker and Cantor, Cantor would ultimately prevail. Cantor's theory would show that Kronecker's precious integers-and even the rational numbers-were nothing at all. They were an infinite zero.
”
”
Charles Seife (Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea)
“
MSE has that property—and it is the only definition of overall error that has it. In figure 6, we have computed the value of MSE in the set of five measurements for ten possible integer values of the line’s true length.
”
”
Daniel Kahneman (Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment)
“
With each integer on the Richter scale, there is a tenfold increase in the number of earthquakes that occur annually. On average, there is one magnitude 8 event, ten magnitude 7 events, a hundred magnitude 6 events, and so on, each year. If we consider this from an energy standpoint, the smaller earthquakes account for a significant fraction of the total seismic energy released each year. The one million magnitude 2 events (which are too small to be felt except instrumentally) collectively release as much energy as does one magnitude 6 earthquake. Although the larger events are certainly more devastating from a human perspective, they are geologically no more important than the myriad less newsworthy small ones.
”
”
Marcia Bjornerud (Reading The Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth)
“
In particular, in introducing new numbers, mathematics is only obliged to give definitions of them, by which such a definiteness and, circumstances permitting, such a relation to the older numbers are conferred upon them that in given cases they can definitely be distinguished from one another. As soon as a number satisfies all these conditions, it can and must be regarded as existent and real in mathematics. Here I perceive the reason why one has to regard the rational, irrational, and complex numbers as being just thoroughly existent as the finite positive integers.
”
”
Georg Cantor (Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers (Dover Books on Mathematics))
“
360 degrees of the circle can be divided evenly by all integers from 1 through 10 except 7; thus, 7 was considered by pre-talismanic witches and sages to “break out of the circle," because breaking the circle by 7 produces an irrational number, whose nonrepeating decimal sequence runs to infinity.]
”
”
A.A. Attanasio (The Dark Shore (Dominons of Irth #1))
“
For one who sets himself to look at all earnestly, at all in purpose toward truth, into the living eyes of a human life: what is it he there beholds that so freezes and abashes his ambitious heart? What is it, profound behind the outward windows of each one of you, beneath touch even of your own suspecting, drawn tightly back at bay against the backward wall and blackness of its prison cave, so that the eyes alone shine of their own angry glory, but the eyes of a trapped wild animal, or of a furious angel nailed to the ground by his wings, or however else one may faintly designate the human 'soul,' that which is angry, that which is wild, that which is untamable, that which is healthful and holy, that which is competent of all advantaging within hope of human dream, that which most marvelous and most precious to our knowledge and most extremely advanced upon futurity of all flowerings within the scope of creation is of all these the least destructible, the least corruptible, the most defenseless, the most easily and multitudinously wounded, frustrated, prisoned, and nailed into a cheating of itself: so situated in the universe that those three hours upon the cross are but a noble and too trivial an emblem how in each individual among most of the two billion now alive and in each successive instant of the existence of each existence not only human being but in him the tallest and most sanguine hope of godhead is in a billionate choiring and drone of pain of generations upon generations unceasingly crucified and is bringing forth crucifixions into their necessities and is each in the most casual of his life so measurelessly discredited, harmed, insulted, poisoned, cheated, as not all the wrath, compassion, intelligence, power of rectification in all the reach of the future shall in the least expiate or make one ounce more light: how, looking thus into your eyes and seeing thus, how each of you is a creature which has never in all time existed before and which shall never in all time exist again and which is not quite like any other and which has the grand stature and natural warmth of every other and whose existence is all measured upon a still mad and incurable time; how am I to speak of you as 'tenant' 'farmers,' as 'representatives' of your 'class,' as social integers in a criminal economy, or as individuals, fathers, wives, sons, daughters, and as my friends and as I 'know' you?
”
”
James Agee (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men)
“
BLOODY LIPS
The bloody wound
Of the gladiator
Gurgles out life's end.
The cries of acclimations from the stands
Fill the sky with raging tigers.
Waving their arms about to incite the masses
The aging notables add an air of dignity to the arena.
Making their separate entries
they
K
N
E
E
L
over the still-warm corpses
Of the young. Their withered lips they pose
Upon the fresh flowing wounds
And, to prolong their lives – so they believe,
Suck, ravenously suck out the blood, blood, blood.
Fresh blood from the sun
Flowing into filthy veins
As into sewage pipes,
And thus the Heart of the Nation is abandoned.
”
”
Visar Zhiti (The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry (Green Integer))
“
As part of "moral philosophy," the concept of "natural liberty" clicks easily into place. Man, as an ethical integer, is either free to choose between good and bad courses within the
limits of his circumstances, or he is not. If he is not free, if he can
only accept what is handed to him from above (by fate, or by decree of the human agents of fate), then there is not much use in talking about morality or ethics. To make any sense of the idea
of morality, it must be presumed that the human being is responsible for his actions-and responsibility cannot be understood apart from the presumption of freedom of choice.
”
”
John Chamberlain (The Roots of Capitalism)
“
Illam meae si partem animae tulit
Maturior vis, quid moror altera?
Nec carus aeque, nec superstes
Integer. Ille dies ultramque
Ducet ruinam.
[Wenn meinen besten Teil der Seele die Parzen vor der Zeit abrissen, was zaudert der andere, der mir nicht lieber, nicht überlebender ist! Ein Tag stürzt uns beide ins Grab.]
”
”
Michel de Montaigne (Die Essays Michel de Montaigne: Die Originalkopie des Buches (German Edition))
“
In a way, in a profound way, I mean, Christ was never pushed off the dead end. At the moment when he was tottering and swaying as if by a great recoil, this negative backwash rolled up and stayed his death. The whole negative impulse of humanity seemed to coil up into a monstrous inert mass to create the human integer, the figure one, one and indivisible. There was a resurrection which is inexplicable unless we accept the fact that men have always been willing and ready to deny their own destiny. The earth rolls on, the stars roll on, but men: the great body of men which makes up the world, are caught in the image of the one and only one.
”
”
Henry Miller (Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic, #2))
“
There are numerous brain rhythms, from approximately 0.02 to 600 cycles per second (Hz), covering more than four order of temporal magnitude. Many of these discrete brain rhythms have been known for decades, but it was only recently recognized that these oscillation bands form a geometric progression on a linear frequency scale or a linear progression on a natural logarithmic scale. leading to a natural separation of at least ten frequency bands. The neighbouring bands have a roughly constant ratio of e = 2,718 - the base for the natural logarithm. Because of this non-integer relationship among the various brain rhythms, the different frequencies can never perfectly entrain each other. Instead, the interference they produce gives rise to metastability, a perpetual fluctuation between unstable and transiently stable states, like waves in the ocean. The constantly interfering network rhythms can never settle to a stable attractor, using the parlance of nonlinear dynamics. This explains the ever-changing landscape of the EEG.
”
”
György Buzsáki (The Brain from Inside Out)
“
how much is 2+2? Suppose Joseph says: 2+2 = purple, while Maxwell says: 2+2 = 17. Both are wrong but isn't it fair to say that Joseph is wronger than Maxwell?
Suppose you said: 2+2=an integer. You'd be right, wouldn't you? Or suppose you said: 2+2=an even integer. You'd be rather righter. Or suppose you said:2+2=3.999. Wouldn't you be nearly right?
”
”
Isaac Asimov (The Relativity of Wrong)
“
Now they thanked everyone and laughed, and papers were signed, and congratulations offered, and all stood for a moment unwilling to leave this genteel living room where there was such softness. The newlyweds thanked everyone again shyly and went out the door into the cool morning. They laughed, rosy. In they'd come, integers; out they came, squared.
”
”
Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies)
“
Det er ingen herlighet til som suset i skogen, det er som å gynge, det er som galskap; Uganda, Tananarivo, Honolulu, Atacama, Venezuela -
”
”
Knut Hamsun (Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings (Green Integer: 83))
“
Tak for livet, det var morsomt å leve!
”
”
Knut Hamsun (Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings (Green Integer: 83))
“
Det er for øvrig ikke tvil om at det skal en viss grad av hjærnetomhet til for å kunne gå og være varig tilfreds med sig selv og alt.
”
”
Knut Hamsun (Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings (Green Integer: 83))
“
The remaining integer is either 6, 7, 8 or 9. It is more likely to be 8 or 9. The number of continents was either 68 or 76 and a half. Can you guess the equation? What is the formula for calculating the last integer, the continent one? I bet you don’t know unless you are skilled in maths. Fine. Here’s the answer. 68 divided by 8.5 is 8, and 76.5 divided by 8.5 is 9.
”
”
16-Bit People (Diary of a Minecraft Knight (A Minecraft Knight's Adventures Book 1))
“
5.4 The question of accumulation. If life is a wager, what form does it take? At the racetrack, an accumulator is a bet which rolls on profits from the success of one of the horse to engross the stake on the next one.
5.5 So a) To what extent might human relationships be expressed in a mathematical or logical formula? And b) If so, what signs might be placed between the integers?Plus and minus, self-evidently; sometimes multiplication, and yes, division. But these sings are limited. Thus an entirely failed relationship might be expressed in terms of both loss/minus and division/ reduction, showing a total of zero; whereas an entirely successful one can be represented by both addition and multiplication. But what of most relationships? Do they not require to be expressed in notations which are logically improbable and mathematically insoluble?
5.6 Thus how might you express an accumulation containing the integers b, b, a (to the first), a (to the second), s, v?
B = s - v (*/+) a (to the first)
Or
a (to the second) + v + a (to the first) x s = b
5.7 Or is that the wrong way to put the question and express the accumulation? Is the application of logic to the human condition in and of itself self-defeating? What becomes of a chain of argument when the links are made of different metals, each with a separate frangibility?
5.8 Or is "link" a false metaphor?
5.9 But allowing that is not, if a link breaks, wherein lies the responsibility for such breaking? On the links immediately on the other side, or on the whole chain? But what do you mean by "the whole chain"? How far do the limits of responsibility extend?
6.0 Or we might try to draw the responsibility more narrowly and apportion it more exactly. And not use equations and integers but instead express matters in the traditional narrative terminology. So, for instance, if...." - Adrian Finn
”
”
Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
“
The primary concern of mathematics is number, and this means the positive integers…. Mathematics belongs to man, not God. We are not interested in properties of the positive integers that have no descriptive meaning for finite man. When a man proves a positive integer exists, he should show how to find it. If God has mathematics of his own that needs to be done, let him do it himself.
”
”
Errett Bishop (Constructive Analysis)
“
Harriet grinned at Betty Armstrong, hearing the familiar academic wrangle begin. Before ten minutes had passed, somebody had introduced the word "values." An hour later they were still at it. Finally the Bursar was heard to quote: "God made the integers; all else is the work of man." "Oh, bother!" cried the Dean. "Do let's keep mathematics out of it. And physics. I cannot cope with them.
”
”
Dorothy L. Sayers
“
It as mathematical, marriage, not, as one might expect, additional; it was exponential. This one man, nervous in a suite a size too small for his long, lean self, this woman, in a green lace dress cut to the upper thigh, with a white rose behind her ear. Christ, so young. The woman before them was a unitarian minister, and on her buzzed scalp, the grey hairs shone in a swab of sun through the lace in the window. Outside, Poughkeepsie was waking. Behind them, a man in a custodian's uniform cried softly beside a man in pajamas with a Dachshund, their witnesses, a shine in everyone's eye. One could taste the love on the air, or maybe that was sex, or maybe that was all the same then.
'I do,' she said.
'I do,' he said.
They did. They would.
Our children will be so fucking beautiful, he thought, looking at her.
Home, she thought, looking at him.
'You may kiss,' said the officiant.
They did, would.
Now they thanked everyone and laughed, and papers were signed and congratulations offered, and all stood for a moment, unwilling to leave this gentile living room where there was such softness.
The newlyweds thanked everyone again, shyly, and went out the door into the cool morning. They laughed, rosy. In they'd come integers, out they came, squared.
Her life, in the window, the parakeet, scrap of blue midday in the London dusk, ages away from what had been most deeply lived. Day on a rocky beach, creatures in the tide pool. All those ordinary afternoons, listening to footsteps in the beams of the house, and knowing the feeling behind them. Because it was so true, more than the highlights and the bright events, it was in the daily where she'd found life. The hundreds of time she'd dug in her garden, each time the satisfying chew of spade through soil, so often that this action, the pressure and release and rich dirt smell delineated the warmth she'd felt in the cherry orchard.
Or this, each day they woke in the same place, her husband waking her with a cup of coffee, the cream still swirling into the black. Almost unremarked upon this kindness, he would kiss her on the crown of her head before leaving, and she'd feel something in her rising in her body to meet him.
These silent intimacies made their marriage, not the ceremonies or parties or opening nights or occasions, or spectacular fucks. Anyway, that part was finished. A pity...
”
”
Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies)
“
But what G. Cantor posits as the defining formal property of an infinite set is that such a set can be put in a 1-1C with at least one of its proper subsets. Which is to say that an infinite set can have the same cardinal number as its proper subset, as in Galileo's infinite set of all positive integers and that set's proper subset of all perfect squares, which latter is itself an infinite set.
”
”
David Foster Wallace (Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity)
“
He had never indulged in the search for the True Substance, the One, the Absolute, the Diamond suspended from the Christmas tree of the Cosmos. He had always felt the faint ridicule of a finite mind peering at iridescence of the invisible through the prison bars of integers . And even if the Thing could be caught, why would he, or anyone else for that matter, wish the phenomenon to lose its curls, its mask, its mirror, and become the bald noumenon?
”
”
Vladimir Nabokov (Bend Sinister)
“
Think of mathematical symbols as mere labels without intrinsic meaning. It doesn’t matter whether you write, “Two plus two equals four,” “2 + 2 = 4,” or “Dos más dos es igual a cuatro.” The notation used to denote the entities and the relations is irrelevant; the only properties of integers are those embodied by the relations between them. That is, we don’t invent mathematical structures—we discover them, and invent only the notation for describing them.
”
”
Max Tegmark (Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality)
“
In the words of Kronecker, the positive integers were created by God. Kronecker would have expressed it even better if he had said that the positive integers were created by God for the benefit of man (and other finite beings). Mathematics belongs to man, not to God. We are not interested in properties of the positive integers that have no descriptive meaning for finite man. When a man proves a positive integer to exist, he should show how to find it. If God has mathematics of his own that needs to be done, let him do it himself.
”
”
Errett Bishop
“
The danger of speaking about life exclusively in terms of problem and solution is that we are thus tempted to overlook the limitations of this detective game and the very existence of the initial arbitrary rules that makes the playing of it possible. The rule is to exclude from the terms of the problem everything that the solution cannot solve. It is diverting and useful to know that, for the chemist, a man is made up of a few pennyworth of salt, sugar, iron, and what not, together with an intolerable deal of water. But we must not assert that ‘man is, in fact, nothing but’ these things, or suppose that the solution of the pennyworths in the water will produce a complete and final solution of man. . . .
It was said by Kronecker, the mathematician: ‘God made the integers; all else is the work of man.’ Man can table the integers and arrange them into problems that he can solve in the terms in which they are set. But before the inscrutable mystery of the integers themselves he is helpless, unless he calls upon that tri-unity in himself that is made in the image of God, and can include and create the integers.
”
”
Dorothy L. Sayers (Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine)
“
Here are the basic principles of Constructivism as practiced by Kronecker and codified by J.H. Poincare and L.E.J. Brouwer and other major figures in Intuitionism: (1) Any mathematical statement or theorem that is more complicated or abstract than plain old integer-style arithmetic must be explicitly derived (i.e. 'constructed') from integer arithmetic via a finite number of purely deductive steps. (2) The only valid proofs in math are constructive ones, with the adjective here meaning that the proof provides a method for finding (i.e., 'constructing') whatever mathematical entities it's concerned with.
”
”
David Foster Wallace (Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity)
“
A good example of the archetypal ideas which the archetypes produce are natural numbers or integers. With the aid of the integers the shaping and ordering of our experiences becomes exact. Another example is mathematical group theory. ...important applications of group theory are symmetries which can be found in most different connections both in nature and among the 'artifacts' produced by human beings. Group theory also has important applications in mathematics and mathematical physics. For example, the theory of elementary particles and their interactions can in essential respects be reduced to abstract symmetries.
[The Message of the Atoms: Essays on Wolfgang Pauli and the Unspeakable]
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Kalervo V. Laurikainen
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I don't feel very brave,” I said. Without my planning it, our eyes met. He looked, for that moment, like an eighteen-year-old who had been sealed in his bedroom for so long that he'd forgotten how to properly talk to humans.
“It doesn't matter how you feel,” he said. “What matters is truth, and the truth is, you're afraid of other things you don't need to fear.
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Adelaide Thorne (The Integer (Whitewashed #2))
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Argumentum Ornithologicum
I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The
vision lasts a second, or perhaps less; I am not
sure how many birds I saw. Was the number of
birds definite or indefinite? The problem
involves the existence of God. If God exists, the
number is definite, because God knows how
many birds I saw. If God does not exist, the
number is indefinite, because no one can have
counted. In this case I saw fewer than ten birds
(let us say) and more than one, but did not see
nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, or two
birds. I saw a number between ten and one,
which was not nine, eight, seven, six, five, etc.
That integer—not-nine, not-eight, not-seven,
not-six, not-five, etc.—is incon-ceivable. Ergo,
God exists.
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Jorge Luis Borges
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We are so stricken
We are so stricken
that we think we're dying
when the street casts an evil word at us.
The street does not know it,
but it cannot stand such a weight;
it is not used to seeing a Vesuvius of pain
break out.
Its memories of primeval times are obliterated,
since the light became artificial
and angels only play with birds and flowers
or smile in a child's dream
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Nelly Sachs (Collected Poems I: (1944-1949) (Green Integer))
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If you object (as some of us did to Dr. Goris) that Cantor's transfinite numbers aren't really numbers at all but rather sets, then be apprised that what, say, 'P(Infinity to the Infinity +n), really is is a symbol for the number of members in a given set, the same way '3' is a symbol for the number of members in the set {1,2,3}. And since the transfinites are provably distinct and compose an infinite ordered sequence just like the integers,they really are numbers, symbolizable (for now) by Cantor's well-known system of alephs or '(Aleph symbol's). And, as true numbers, transfinites turn out to be susceptible to the same kinds of arithmetical relations and operations as regular numbers-although, just as with 0, the rules for these operations are very different in the case of (Alephs) and have to be independently established and proved.
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David Foster Wallace (Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity)
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Chorus of Comforters
We are gardeners who have no flowers,
No herb may be transplanted
From yesterday to tomorrow.
The sage has faded in the cradles--
Rosemary lost its scent facing the new dead--
Even wormwood was only bitter yesterday.
The blossoms of comfort are too small
Not enough for the torment of a child's tear.
New seed may perhaps be gathered
In the heart of a nocturnal singer.
Which of us may comfort?
In the depth of the defile
Between yesterday and tomorrow
The cherub stands
Grinding the lightnings of sorrow with his wings
But his hands hold apart the rocks
Of yesterday and tomorrow
Like the edges of a wound
Which must remain open
That may not yet heal.
The lightnings of sorrow do not allow
The field of forgetting to fall asleep.
Which of us may comfort?
We are gardeners who have no flowers
And stand upon a shining star
And weep.
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Nelly Sachs (Collected Poems I: (1944-1949) (Green Integer))
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Chorus of Clouds
We are full of sighs, full of glances,
We are full of laughter
And sometimes we wear your faces.
We are not far from you.
Who knows how much of your blood rose
And stained us?
Who knows how many tears you have shed
Because of our weeping? How much longing formed us?
We play at dying,
Accustom you gently to death.
You, the inexperienced, who learn nothing in the nights.
Many angels are given you
But you do not see them.
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Nelly Sachs (Collected Poems I: (1944-1949) (Green Integer))
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Boston and Chicago are two great seats of mathematical research located in major American cities. Until they won in 2004, if you asked a baseball fan in Boston what they most hoped to see in their lifetime, they would have answered a World Series win for the Boston Red Sox. Chicago Cubs fans are still waiting. Ask a mathematician in either of those cities or anywhere else in the world what they would most hope to see in their lifetime, and they would most likely answer: "A proof o the Riemann hypothesis!" Perhaps mathematicians, like Red Sox fans, will have their prayers answered in our lifetimes, or at least before the Cubs win the World Series.
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Stephen Hawking (God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History)
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The properties that define a group are:
1. Closure. The offspring of any two members combined by the operation must itself be a member. In the group of integers, the sum of any two integers is also an integer (e.g., 3 + 5 = 8).
2. Associativity. The operation must be associative-when combining (by the operation) three ordered members, you may combine any two of them first, and the result is the same, unaffected by the way they are bracketed. Addition, for instance, is associative: (5 + 7) + 13 = 25 and 5 + (7 + 13) = 25, where the parentheses, the "punctuation marks" of mathematics, indicate which pair you add first.
3. Identity element. The group has to contain an identity element such that when combined with any member, it leaves the member unchanged. In the group of integers, the identity element is the number zero. For example, 0 + 3 = 3 + 0 = 3.
4. Inverse. For every member in the group there must exist an inverse. When a member is combined with its inverse, it gives the identity element. For the integers, the inverse of any number is the number of the same absolute value, but with the opposite sign: e.g., the inverse of 4 is -4 and the inverse of -4 is 4; 4 + (-4) = 0 and (-4) + 4 = 0.
The fact that this simple definition can lead to a theory that embraces and unifies all the symmetries of our world continues to amaze even mathematicians.
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Mario Livio (The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry)
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What this means is that the (Infinity) of points involved in continuity is greater than the (Infinity) of points comprised by any kind of discrete sequence, even an infinitely dense one. (2) Via his Diagonal Proof that c is greater than Aleph0, Cantor has succeeded in characterizing arithmetical continuity entirely in terms of order, sets, denumerability, etc. That is, he has characterized it 100% abstractly, without reference to time, motion, streets, noses, pies, or any other feature of the physical world-which is why Russell credits him with 'definitively solving' the deep problems behind the dichotomy. (3) The D.P. also explains, with respect to Dr. G.'s demonstration back in Section 2e, why there will always be more real numbers than red hankies. And it helps us understand why rational numbers ultimately take up 0 space on the Real Line, since it's obviously the irrational numbers that make the set of all reals nondenumerable. (4) An extension of Cantor's proof helps confirm J. Liouville's 1851 proof that there are an infinite number of transcendental irrationals in any interval on the Real Line. (This is pretty interesting. You'll recall from Section 3a FN 15 that of the two types of irrationals, transcendentals are the ones like pi and e that can't be the roots of integer-coefficient polynomials. Cantor's proof that the reals' (Infinity) outweighs the rationals' (Infinity) can be modified to show that it's actually the transcendental irrationals that are nondenumerable and that the set of all algebraic irrationals has the same cardinality as the rationals, which establishes that it's ultimately the transcendetnal-irrational-reals that account for the R.L.'s continuity.)
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David Foster Wallace (Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity)
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What Cantor's Diagonal Proof does is generate just such a number, which let's call R. The proof is both ingenious and beautiful-a total confirmation of art's compresence in pure math. First, have another look at the above table. We can let the integral value of R be whatever X we want; it doesn't matter. But now look at the table's very first row. We're going to make sure R's first post-decimal digit, a, is a different number from the table's a1. It's easy to do this even though we don't know what particular number a1 is: let's specify that a=(a1-1) unless a1 happens to be 0, in which case a=9. Now look at the table's second row, because we're going to do the same thing for R's second digit b: b=(b2-1), or b=9 if b2=0. This is how it works. We use the same procedure for R's third digit c and the table's c3, for d and d4, for e and e5, and so on, ad inf. Even though we can't really construct the whole R (just as we can't really finish the whole infinite table), we can still see that this real number R=X.abcdefhi... is going to be demonstrably different from every real number in the table. It will differ from the table's 1st Real in its first post-decimal digit, from the 2nd Real in its second digit, from the 3rd Real in its third digit,...and will, given the Diagonal Method here, differ from the table's Nth Real in its nth digit. Ergo R is not-cannot be-included in the above infinite table; ergo the infinite table is not exhaustive of all the real numbers; ergo (by the rules of reductio) the initial assumption is contradicted and the set of all real numbers is not denumerable, i.e. it's not 1-1 C-able with the set of integers. And since the set of all rational numbers is 1-1C-able with the integers, the set of all reals' cardinality has got to be greater than the set of all rationals' cardinality. Q.E.D.*
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David Foster Wallace (Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity)
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Many of the really great, famous proofs in the history of math have been reduction proofs. Here's an example. It is Euclid's proof of Proposition 20 in Book IX of the Elements. Prop. 20 concerns the primes, which-as you probably remember from school-are those integers that can't be divided into smaller integers w/o remainder. Prop. 20 basically states that there is no largest prime number. (What this means of course is that the number of prime numbers is really infinite, but Euclid dances all around this; he sure never says 'infinite'.) Here is the proof. Assume that there is in fact a largest prime number. Call this number Pn. This means that the sequence of primes (2,3,5,7,11,...,Pn) is exhaustive and finite: (2,3,5,7,11,...,Pn) is all the primes there are. Now think of the number R, which we're defining as the number you get when you multiply all the primes up to Pn together and then add 1. R is obviously bigger than Pn. But is R prime? If it is, we have an immediate contradiction, because we already assumed that Pn was the largest possible prime. But if R isn't prime, what can it be divided by? It obviously can't be divided by any of the primes in the sequence (2,3,5,...,Pn), because dividing R by any of these will leave the remainder 1. But this sequence is all the primes there are, and the primes are ultimately the only numbers that a non-prime can be divided by. So if R isn't prime, and if none of the primes (2,3,5,...,Pn) can divide it, there must be some other prime that divides R. But this contradicts the assumption that (2,3,5,...,Pn) is exhaustive of all the prime numbers. Either way, we have a clear contradiction. And since the assumption that there's a largest prime entails a contradiction, modus tollens dictates that the assumption is necessarily false, which by LEM means that the denial of the assumption is necessarily true, meaning there is no largest prime. Q.E.D.
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David Foster Wallace (Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity)
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Unlike classically spinning bodies, such as tops, however, where the spin rate can assume any value fast or slow, electrons always have only one fixed spin. In the units in which this spin is measured quantum mechanically (called Planck's constant) the electrons have half a unit, or they are "spin-1/2" particles. In fact, all the matter particles in the standard model-electrons, quarks, neutrinos, and two other types called muons and taus-all have "spin 1/2." Particles with half-integer spin are known collectively as fermions (after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi). On the other hand, the force carriers-the photon, W, Z, and gluons-all have one unit of spin, or they are "spin-1" particles in the physics lingo. The carrier of gravity-the graviton-has "spin 2," and this was precisely the identifying property that one of the vibrating strings was found to possess. All the particles with integer units of spin are called bosons (after the Indian physicist Satyendra Bose). Just as ordinary spacetime is associated with a supersymmetry that is based on spin. The predictions of supersymmetry, if it is truly obeyed, are far-reaching. In a universe based on supersymmetry, every known particle in the universe must have an as-yet undiscovered partner (or "superparrtner"). The matter particles with spin 1/2, such as electrons and quarks, should have spin 0 superpartners. the photon and gluons (that are spin 1) should have spin-1/2 superpartners called photinos and gluinos respectively. Most importantly, however, already in the 1970s physicists realized that the only way for string theory to include fermionic patterns of vibration at all (and therefore to be able to explain the constituents of matter) is for the theory to be supersymmetric. In the supersymmetric version of the theory, the bosonic and fermionic vibrational patters come inevitably in pairs. Moreover, supersymmetric string theory managed to avoid another major headache that had been associated with the original (nonsupersymmetric) formulation-particles with imaginary mass. Recall that the square roots of negative numbers are called imaginary numbers. Before supersymmetry, string theory produced a strange vibration pattern (called a tachyon) whose mass was imaginary. Physicists heaved a sigh of relief when supersymmetry eliminated these undesirable beasts.
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Mario Livio (The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry)
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for example, to see whether in the developing subject, i.e. the child, integers are directly constructed starting from class logic by biunivocal correspondence and the construction of a “class of equivalent classes” as Frege and B. Russell thought, or whether the construction is more complex and presupposes the concept of order.
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Jean Piaget (Insights and Illusions of Philosophy (Selected Works, Vol 9))
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For example, consider a stack (which is a first-in, last-out list). You might have a program that requires three different types of stacks. One stack is used for integer values, one for floating-point values, and one for characters. In this case, the algorithm that implements each stack is the same, even though the data being stored differs. In a non-object-oriented language, you would be required to create three different sets of stack routines, with each set using different names. However, because of polymorphism, in Java you can create one general set of stack routines that works for all three specific situations. This way, once you know how to use one stack, you can use them all. More generally, the concept of polymorphism is often expressed by the phrase “one interface, multiple methods.” This means that it is possible to design a generic interface to a group of related activities. Polymorphism helps reduce complexity by allowing the same interface to be used to specify a general class of action.
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Herbert Schildt (Java: A Beginner's Guide)
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I've actually got a new sorta-boyfriend and I suppose maybe I'll have shake-the-rafters, rattle-the-windows sex with him since I'll finally be legal and all."
"Eponine," Phil hissed. Maube I'd only said it for the reaction, because there was absolutely no way that would be happening withing the month. I could count the numbers of boys I'd merely kissed on one hand. I didn't even need a hand at all to number the guys I'd slept with. I figured the integer wasn't about to change any time soon, either.
"Obviously I'm kidding, Phil." His posture relaxed, only slightly. "We'll be quiet.
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Megan Squires (Love Like Crazy)
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Harley begins to panic. “Coming to Earth?! Our Earth? But I don’t want to die. There is so much I haven’t done yet – like learn Modularity Theorem!” “What is Modularity Theorem?” I ask. “The theorem states that any elliptic curve over Q can be obtained via a rational map with integer coefficients from the classical modular curve (N) for integer N and is a curve with integer coefficients with an explicit definition. If N is the smallest integer for which the parameterization can be sourced,
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Peter Patrick (Middle School Super Spy: Space! (Diary Of A Super Spy Book 4))
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You sit by the window
and it is snowing--
your hair is white
and your hands--
but in both mirrors
of your white face
summer has been maintained:
Land for meadows raised into the invisible--
potions for shadow deer at night.
But mourning I sink into your whiteness,
your snow--
which life leaves ever so quietly
as after a prayer is spoken to the end--
O to fall asleep in your snow
with all my grief in the fiery breath of the world.
While the delicate lines on your brow
drown already in the ocean of night
for a new birth.
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Nelly Sachs (Collected Poems I: (1944-1949) (Green Integer))
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They were a set of clever, strong-headed, lively geniuses, who saw well enough that the sum of our existence, divided by reason, never gives an integer number, but that a surprising fraction is always left behind.
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Charles William Eliot (Harvard Classics: The Complete Fiction)
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Now be honest-wouldn't you have expected e^i*pi to be (a) gibberish aling the lines of "elephant inkpie," or, if it were mathematically meaningful, to be (b) an infinitely complicated irrational number? Indeed, e^i*pi is a transcendental number raised to an imaginary transcendental power. And if (b) were the case, surely e^i*pi would not compute no matter how much computer power were available to try to pin down its value. As you know, neither (a) nor (b) is true, because e^i*pi = -1. (I suspect the fact that both (a) and (b) are provably false is the reason that Benjamin Peirce, the nineteenth-century mathematician, found Euler's formula (or a closely rekated formula) "absolutely paradoxical.") In other words, when the three enigmatic numbers are combined in this form, e^i*pi , they react together to carve out a wormhole that spirals through the infinite depths of number space to emerge smack dab in the heartland of integers. It's as if greenish-pink androids rocketing toward Alpha Centauri in 2370 had hit a space time anomaly and suddenly found themselves sitting in a burger joint in Topeka, Kansas, in 1956. Elvis, of course , was playing on the jukebox.
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David Stipp (A Most Elegant Equation: Euler's Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics)
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Here's just one of Ramanujan's many provocative formulas: (1+1/2^4) * (1+1/3^4)*(1+1/5^4)*(1+1/7^4)*(1+1/next prime number^4)x...= 105/pi^4.
The infinite product on the left side of this equation is based on successive prime numbers raised to the 4th power. Primes are integers greater than 1 that are evenly divisible only by themselves and 1. Thus, 3 is a prime, but 4 isn't because it's evenly divisible by 2. The first nine primes are 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19, and 23. The primes go on forever, which accounts for the ellipsis at the end of the product in Ramanujan's formula. This formula shows a deep connection between pi and the prime numbers.
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David Stipp (A Most Elegant Equation: Euler's Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics)
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God made the integers, all else is the work of man.
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Leopold Kronecker
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outputs are discrete and indivisible units of value, denominated in integer satoshis. An
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Andreas M. Antonopoulos (Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain)
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United States Zip Code system to approximate the patients’ area of residence. This method reports the first three digits of the patient’s zip code, while omitting the last two digits [18]. The first three digits of a zip code contain two pieces of information: the first integer in the code refers to a number of states, the following two
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Mit Critical Data (Secondary Analysis of Electronic Health Records)
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In order to draw mechanical vibrations and relieve the stresses that build up within the Earth, we would need an object that would respond sympathetically with the Earth's fundamental frequency. This object would need to be designed in such a way that its own resonant frequency was the same as, or a harmonic of, the Earth's. In this manner, energy transfer from the source would be at maximum load. In harmony with the Earth's vibrations, this object would have the potential to become a coupled oscillator. (A coupled oscillator is an object that is in harmonic resonance with another, usually larger, vibrating object. When set into motion, the coupled oscillator will draw energy from the source and vibrate in sympathy as long as the source continues to vibrate.)
Because the Earth constantly generates a broad spectrum of vibration, we could utilize vibration as a source of energy if we developed suitable technology. Naturally, any device that attracted greater amounts of this energy than is normally being radiated from the Earth would greatly improve the efficiency of the equipment. Because energy will inherently follow the path of least resistance, it follows that any device offering less resistance to this energy than the surrounding medium through which it passes would have a greater amount of energy channeled through it. Keeping all of this in mind and knowing that the Great Pyramid is a mathematical integer of the Earth, it may not be so outlandish to propose that the pyramid is capable of vibrating at a harmonic frequency of the Earth's fundamental frequency.
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Christopher Dunn (The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt)
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Take f(N) = N2—N + 41,” he continued, “where N is any integer from 0 through 40. That function will generate your entire sequence
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Arthur C. Clarke (The Garden of Rama (Rama, #3))
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Their math lacks integers!” “As far as we can tell,” Jennifer added. “They don’t use whole numbers at all. Only ’smears,’ they call them.
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Greg Bear (Anvil of Stars (Forge of God, #2))
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Mother nature is a master mathematician specialising in addition and subtraction. Our lives run linearly, a series of integer numbers alternating between two poles to opposite ends of the spectrum through our lives, making a journal of our time.
Mankind tries to quantify these events for easier understanding, study for future prevention or record keeping. Oftentimes they're events that mother nature throws at us which cannot be enumerated or fit on mathematical scales. These are events that cause big shifts but are still incomprehensible.
They remain an enigma to us and requires an inner understanding that's different in each and every person.
True human grit is to soak ourselves in each moment on separate points of the spectrum either for good or worse and knowing there's no other way except through the centre of every singular moment
Real strength comes as we accept the chapters as they're and keeping the long-term outlook of our feelings constant to the extreme right pole despite fluctuations from events.
So until subtractions exceeds the left pole we'll meet.
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Eagerson Muchemwa
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Atoms, elements and molecules are three important knowledge in Physics, chemistry and Biology. mathematics comes where counting starts, when counting and measurement started, integers were required. Stephen hawking says integers were created by god and everything else is work of man. Man sees pattern in everything and they are searched and applied to other sciences for engineering, management and application problems. Physics, it is required understand the physical nature or meaning of why it happens, chemistry is for chemical nature, Biology is for that why it happened. Biology touch medicine, plants and animals. In medicine how these atoms, elements and molecules interplay with each other by bondage is being explained. Human emotions and responses are because of biochemistry, hormones i e anatomy and physiology. This physiology deals with each and every organs and their functions. When this atom in elements are disturbed whatever they made i e macromolecules DNA, RNA and Protein and other micro and macro nutrients and which affects the physiology of different organs on different scales and then diseases are born because of this imbalance/ disturb in homeostasis. There many technical words are there which are hard to explain in single para. But let me get into short, these atoms in elements and molecules made interplay because of ecological stimulus i e so called god. and when opposite sex meets it triggers various responses on body of each. It is also harmone and they are acting because of atoms inside elements and continuous generation or degenerations of cell cycle. There is a god cell called totipotent stem cell, less gods are pluripotent, multi potent and noni potent stem cells. So finally each and every organ system including brain cells are affected because of interplay of atoms inside elements and their bondages in making complex molecules, which are ruled by ecological stimulus i e god. So everything is basically biology and medicine even for animals, plants and microbes and other life forms. process differs in each living organisms. The biggest mystery is Brain and DNA. Brain has lots of unexplained phenomenon and even dreams are not completely understood by science that is where spiritualism/ soul touches. DNA is long molecule which has many applications as genetic engineering. genomics, personal medicine, DNA as tool for data storage, DNA in panspermia theory and many more. So everything happens to women and men and other sexes are because of Biology, Medicine and ecology. In ecology every organisms are inter connected and inter dependent.
Now physics - it touch all technical aspects but it needs mathematics and statistics to lay foundation for why and how it happened and later chemistry, biology also included inside physics. Mathematics gave raise to computers and which is for fast calculation on any applications in any sciences. As physiological imbalances lead to diseases and disorders, genetic mutations, again old concept evolution was retaken to understand how new biology evolves. For evolution and disease mechanisms, epidemiology and statistics was required and statistics was as a data tool considered in all sciences now a days.
Ultimate science is to break the atoms to see what is inside- CERN, but it creates lots of mysterious unanswerable questions. laws in physics were discovered and invented with mathematics to understand the universe from atoms. Theory of everything is a long search and have no answers. While searching inside atoms, so many hypothesis like worm holes and time travel born but not yet invented as far as my knowledge.
atom is universe, and humans are universe they have everything that universe has. ecology is god that affects humans and climate.
In business these computerized AI applications are trying to figure out human emotions by their mechanism of writing, reading, texting, posting on social media and bla bla.
Arts is trying to figure out human emotions in art way.
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Ganapathy K
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/"and "//"are both division operators. The operation result of "/"is a floating-point number. The "//"will remove the decimal part of the division calculation result and only takes the integer. The "%" operator is the remainder.
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Lewis Smith (Learn programming Python for beginners: The Ultimate and Complete Tutorial to Easily Get the Python Intermediate Level with Step-by-Step Practical Exercise)
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Loneliness is an orchid by the stream
Which I wish to pluck and give to someone
Someone is far, far away.
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Dominic Cheung (Chang Ts'o) (Drifting (Green Integer: 79))
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A mathematical proposition expresses a certain expectation. For example, the proposition, “Euler constant C is rational” expresses the expectation that we could find two integers a and b such that C = a/b. Perhaps, the word “intention”, coined by the phenomenologists, expresses even better what is meant here.
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Arend Heyting
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[O]ne may doubt that the intuition and the construction of new forms from positive integers would prove to be reliable in this case. In particular, Brouwer explores the continuum in the form of infinite sequences of positive integers . . . . However, historically the idea of the continuum has been created by idealization of a really observable continuous environment. Now it is hard to imagine how we could find in this a basis for the development of mathematical theory. However, only this could be a straight way to understand the nature of mathematical continuum.
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A.N. Kolmogorov