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[Oracle]

I've just read a fantastic little book and I don't have anyone with the right persuasion with whom to swap thoughts and feelings. Someone nerdy but familiar with Greek madness!

More later, but for now ...... has anyone else read:

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiades

[Gasman]

Or even ... Apostolos Doxiadis

Good job they print these books in English for wannabee Greeks like you or you'd need a translator.

[Oracle]

Good job there's Google to keep you feeling clever.


In Greek it's Απόστολος Δοξιάδης -- and "-δης" is (more) correctly translated in English to "-des".

Η η .... Eta .... Transliterated "E"

[You've inadvertently proved the exact opposite of what you intended, you belligerent troll.]

[Oracle]

Am I destined to make endless, idle chit-chat until that One clay-like lithos in the universe, Created by an unprovable abstraction and afflicted by Greek madness, stops wandering? Or, is this final confirmation that mathematicians will always engineer the last word ...

[Gasman]

More like proof that no one's interested in your inane posts. What a life? Lying in bed til 9am and then making a 'cuppa' (how Brit!) and logging onto here to try to get some attention.

You discover a 10 year old book and hope to catch the attention of all with it?

[Oracle]

Why don't you stop trolling my posts and wasting your valuable time. Your attention, and concern about my habits, is not of interest to me or anyone else.

Now buzz off, and should I make another post here, kindly ignore it - it will NOT be for you.

[Oracle]

Gödel and God.

Leave off the dots and what have you got? God! ... -ish.

Incompleteness theorem my ass! Sheer laziness!

So, there are some theories you can't prove, but there's no way of knowing which they are. The fact mathematicians invent new abstractions to befit whatever new idea they dream up might account for that, no?

If you were a biologist Gödel, you would have been ridiculed out of the lab

For example:

"To prove this theorem, Gödel developed a technique now known as Gödel numbering, which codes formal expressions as natural numbers."

So, to prove your point, you invent something you name after yourself, and there you have it!

[Oracle]

Anyway, in a nutshell, Απόστολος Δοξιάδης fused the world of academic Maths and personal quests poignantly and much could be made of the familial relationships which could only come from its Greek backdrop. Anyone interested in reading it can get good reviews on the Internet and so I'm not going to labour away with that.

Onwards ...

[Oracle]

Another little publicised contemporary Greek novel I read recently, which I recommend is:


Four Walls by Vangelis Hatziyannidis


So, has anyone else read that one and is prepared to come forth and give us their view?

[ZoC]

wot a great place to catch 40 winks....