Epstein Secrets

ubt it can (partially) be described in language, but that's not what you mean. Zipf's law is a rank-frequency distribution. And also meaningless, as Mandelbrot showed 60 years ago. I hope Yang is clear about this. He surely knows. Noam From: jeffrey E. Imailto:[email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 21,

r, again. There are lots of narrower problems that can be posed, but there are issues of general import. What was very special, maybe unique, about Hilbert in 1900 was the advances in the field had reached the point so that questions had that miraculous combination of being (1) potentially within reach

tters. Smart and int=resting guy. You might want to contact him directly. I don't recall his using Zipf=E2 s "laws," but it wouldn't matter much. Mandelbrot showed back in the '50s that they were a statistical artifact, near meaningless. I was, incidentally, surprised to see how he dealt with this resu

guage=(and probably much else). That problem can be addressed, and has been, I t=ink with some success. Very generous proposal. Made go=d sense for Hilbert in 1900, given the advances of the past century. =These enabled him to formulate problems of deep mathematical significance in a form that was not t

tters. Smart and int=resting guy. You might want to contact him directly. I don't recall his using Zipf=E2 s "laws," but it wouldn't matter much. Mandelbrot showed back in the '50s that they were a statistical artifact, near meaningless. I was, incidentally, surprised to see how he dealt with this resu

r, again. There are lots of narrower problems that can be posed, but there are issues=of general import. What was very special, maybe unique, about Hilbert in 1900 was the advances=in the field had reached the point so that questions had that miraculous c=mbination of being (1) potentially within reach

ennis Sullivan, use a projector to display a computer-generated, intricate and beautiful, mathematical object, the well known, computer screen saver, Mandelbrot set. It represents the control parameter plane of the well studied complex analytic map, z > z* + c. Sullivan, pointing to a small, discrete complica

black high hat, abracadabra. The Hebrew word for word, davar, also signifies thing. This view contrasts with the mathematical formalists, among them Hilbert, who considered the signifiers of abstract mathematics simply symbols used in a game, the rules of which being arbitrary, must include proofs of cons