[FRIAM] Mission to Abisko

[Merle Lefkoff]

I knew John.  We did a bit of work together when he was living here.  He
has a way with words:  "Paradigms Lost", one of my favorite book titles!

On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 9:17 PM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm>
wrote:

> By John L. Casti and Anders Karlqvist
>
> Casti seems to hail from Santa Fe — anybody know him?
>
> Our conversations involving metaphor and story and science prompted me to
> reread this book over the weekend. I would like to highly recommend it to
> everyone on the list.
>
> The subtitle of the book is "stories and myths in the creation of
> scientific 'truth'."
>
> Jon, Frank and anyone else who identifies as a mathematician will enjoy /
> find interesting the chapter by Ian Steward, "Secret Narratives of
> Mathematics."  From the chapter:
>
> "A proof is a story. Not any old story. It has to take off from the
> hypothesis and end by confirming the conclusion. Not end with the
> conclusion, by the way — any more than a novel is obliged to end with the
> hero and heroine riding off together into the sunset. The story ends when
> the conclusion is firmly pinned down. (This is where you stop and put your
> Halmos symbol.)
>
> If a proof is a story, then a memorable proof must tell a ripping yarn."
>
> Lot's of fun stuff about evolution, computational thinking, algorithmic
> and ascetic storytelling, something for everyone interested in science, how
> science is done, science as communication, science and prediction.
>
> davew
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Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
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