How to Create the Infinite and Hold It in Your Hands and Other Mathematical Meditations Redux
Tech Tribe Dispatch #151
💡 Think:
How can a finite world contain the infinity of the Al-mighty?
Here’s an exercise: Take a pencil in your hand. Feel its heft and weight, note the glint of the light on its lacquered surface, the darkness of its graphite.
Now draw a circle on a piece of paper.
Next draw a straight line across the diameter of the circle. Two physical shapes, created by your hands - visible in their entirety to your human eyes.
Now think about the interface between these two shapes, the resulting formula, π, a transcendent irrational number. Never ending as its digits stretch on 3 . 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 8 9 7 9 3 2 3 8 4 6 2 6 4 3 3 8 3 2 7 9 5 0 2 8 8 4 1 9 7 1 6 9 3 9 9 3 7 5 1 0 5 8 2 0 9 7 4 9 4……
A physical paper, with physical graphite lines drawn with a pencil made of wood, wax and earth, clenched in the flesh of your physical hands . . . and yet, it contains the infinite.
(Based on Lehaskilcho, a short 1815 discourse by the Tzemach Tzedek.
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