Manny’s Comments (group member since Nov 15, 2015)

Manny’s comments from the "Against the Day", Thomas Pynchon - 2015 / 2016 group.

Has anyone figured out exactly what's going on with the equation

Light + Silver = Photography?

Decided that I had to get A History of Vector Analysis as well...

If you're going to read one math or physics text as background, may I suggest Derbyshire's Prime Obsession? It's a terrific book in its own right, and it'll make the constant references to the Riemann Hypothesis rather less mysterious...

Quarternions turned out to be important in formulating the Dirac equation, which basically links quantum mechanics to special relativity... I'm wondering if that will come into it! He certainly seems to be skirting round those themes. So many weird threads in this book...

I'm curious to see how the quarternion theme develops. A remarkable number of references to that, starting with Hamilton's great insight on the Brougham Bridge...