Upon catching up to the work of Manon Bischoff of Spektrum

TO: Manon Bischoff, Spektrum (Scientific American), Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Germany
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Articles/Lectures: Darmstadt: Quark Model History and current status(PDF), and your homepage(s): LinkedIN, Spektrum (On Mathematics), Twitter(X): @manon_ym

First email: 20 February 2024   (Updated)

Dear Manon Bischoff:

I sent a note through Twitter/X earlier today. I think we can do a much better job with pi (π) just by asking a few questions:

  1. Are the endless numbers of pi (π)  finite or infinite?
  2. Are the scale-invariant spheres perfect or imperfect? …finite or infinite?
  3. Is Fourier’s Transform built into every sphere? …finite or infinite? 

In that tweet were links for today’s homepage where I ask those questions: https://81018.com/reformat/#Spheres

Perhaps last year’s pi-day page could be a little intro: https://81018.com/pointing/

We — people — get so nervous around infinity. I just put it outside the box: https://81018.com/csh/.  It works for me. So the challenge then becomes to define the box. That first link is my attempt: https://81018.com/reformat/ Of course there’s a story behind it all and there are 1800+ pages within that website that describe it!

Interesting?  Thanks.

Warmly,

Bruce

PS. Do you know the work of Christof Wetterich there at the university? I visited the school on several occasions long, long ago! Do you happen to know the story of Georg Picht who was on the philosopher-ethics faculty and was visited by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker who with a few others in the world understood the nature of a chain reaction that could lead the way to the development of the first nuclear bomb. Picht and von Weizsäcker discussed it for awhile and Picht told him to sit on the information. That story was relayed to me by von Weizsäcker’s on one of his visits to MIT in Cambridge. -BEC

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