[b]Stanislaw Ulam
It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is. [/b]
And we certainly have our share of them here, don’t we?
Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.
That might explain mine then. Or even yours.
Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.
Either that or a sim world.
In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many more connections between them must have changed and grown as a result of many accidents.
That’s as good an excuse as any, right?
Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt “strange inside” two or three times during my life.
Though for some here [no doubt] two or three times a post?
By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder.
Anyone more amazed than I am?