[FRIAM] Making math more Lego-like | Harvard Gazette

[Pamela McCorduck]

Oh my goodness, Arthur Jaffe once delegated me to go to an art gallery in Santa Fe to see if the piece he loved really was as lovable as he thought. I stared at it for a half hour or so, and reported back that indeed it was. So he bought it long distance. Long time ago.


> On Mar 4, 2017, at 11:23 AM, Barry MacKichan <barry.mackichan at mackichan.com> wrote:
> 
> I’m sure it works. Art Jaffe is a respected mathematical physicist and once president of the American Math Society. I downloaded the preprint but haven’t had time to look at it yet. It seems aimed at quantum stuff.
> 
> --Barry
> 
> 
> On 3 Mar 2017, at 20:40, Owen Densmore wrote:
> 
> Interesting new research making Math More Lego-like: 3-D picture-language has far-reaching potential, including in physics
> ​    ​http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/03/making-math-more-lego-like/ <http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/03/making-math-more-lego-like/>
> 
> ​Anyone familiar with this? Does it work? :)
> 
>    -- Owen​
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