atavistic patterns

Jul 14, 2005 18:55

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

--William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

the roots of infinity as a symbol used in mathematics are often traced back to John Wallis in 1655, and Bernoulli in 1694although the truth is that there's an even deeper ( Read more... )

math, leminscate, ouroboros, philosophy, analemma, infinity, art

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motive_nuance July 14 2005, 18:45:40 UTC
That "Deep Math" thing you linked to is the biggest piece of drug-induced blabbery that I've seen in quite a while. Wow.

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aethyrflux July 14 2005, 19:14:04 UTC
the biggest piece of drug-induced blabbery that I've seen in quite a while

...and that's saying a lot!
i was actually most fond of the black arts diary article on the leminscate

then, i realized that i was trapped in an endlessly recursive cycle of researching infinity...

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aethyrflux July 27 2005, 01:40:48 UTC
i must be more careful, while doing reasearch... would you belive that this initial post sent one of my emails into the infinite abyss?

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knighthorse July 27 2005, 12:39:02 UTC
With your posts, the possibilities are infinite.

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knighthorse July 15 2005, 06:59:16 UTC
then, i realized that i was trapped in an endlessly recursive cycle of researching infinity...

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aethyrflux July 30 2005, 02:33:26 UTC
whoa, this film look like a cross between "heathers" and "donnie darko"
but i suspect it will probably be more like "go" than "requiem for a dream"
the official site seems comprehensive
...but the fansite is completely insane!

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she_flies July 15 2005, 10:26:44 UTC
Thank you for another wonderful post. I especially appreciated the link on Ouroboros.

If you can remember and find it again I would love to read the bit you read on the Estruscans and the use of CD.

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aethyrflux July 29 2005, 09:47:58 UTC
regrettably, i got that idea from vague references here and there with no citations...

however, i did find a voluminous site on The Mysterious Etruscans...

and while artlex has some decent images of etruscan art, many of their links to the louvre are broken; so, here is a working one:
Art étrusque (du IXe au Ier siècles avant J.-C.)

i found some images of wave & spiral patterns used on etruscan rings that are highly suggestive of infinity, also...

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aethyrflux January 25 2012, 23:05:20 UTC
Mise en abîme sonore
http://jeromepierre.com/larsen/

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