TO: Helge Holden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: You many ArXiv (54) articles, especially On the accuracy of the finite volume approximations to nonlocal conservation laws(2023); and even your CV and other publications. Even your homepage is helpful. We even looked at your 60th Birthday Tribute (PDF), your Abel Prize citations, and Academia Europaea, Google Scholar, and IMU notes; NTNU, Toppforsk, and finally Wikipedia.
This page is: https://81018.com/holden/
Second email: Saturday, 17 June 2023 at 7:32 PM
Dear Prof. Dr. Helge Holden:
Attempting to empathize with you, that first email (just below) must have prompted, “What does one do with this?” The expression, “Not even wrong” probably applies. It would be easy to say, “…just generalities.” It certainly doesn’t follow any discussions and trends within most peer-reviewed published materials. Very few write and talk about pi (π). It’s not that there is no mystery there, it is just not the focus of funding.
I’ve begun a deeper survey of your work, knowing full well that I’ll still only be scratching the surface. My questions are still too broad, but I hope you might guide me:
(1) Is there a standard definition of infinity or infinite within infinite-dimensional analysis?
A yes or no will do!
(2) Are you aware of the paper by Lagarias and Zong that won the AMS Conant Award (PDF)? It was titled, Mysteries in Packing Regular Tetrahedra with Jeffrey Lagarias, and Chaunming Zong (PDF), AMS, 2012. It has an excellent discussion about Aristotle’s 1800 year old mistake with simple geometries, and confirmed the gaps that we found within our geometric constructions from within our high school classes. Are these gaps at all interesting to you as a mathematician?
Thank you.
Most sincerely,
Bruce
PS. Yes, I’ve started an overview page about you and your work: https://81018.com/holden/ And, you are also listed among the many here: https://81018.com/alphabetical/#Helge. Let me thank you for all that you’ve done and all that you are doing. -BEC
PPS. We got to Oslo and Bergen on our first trip to Norway. Everybody says we’ve got to go to Trondheim and then continue north! -B
First Email: Monday, Mar 13, 2023 at 3:02 PM (little update)
Dear Prof. Dr. Helge Holden:
You are known as one of the savants of mathematics.
Might pi be further defined as follows:
Pi is the continuity, symmetry, and harmony from which circles and spheres evolve. Three perfect functions, currently not taken together as a whole, continuity is the never-ending, never-repeating numbers of pi; symmetry is a deeper nature within those numbers that become relations which become circles and spheres; and, harmony is an even deeper dynamic nature of the sphere that was first opened in 1820 by Joseph Fourier. A most simple harmony is found within every sphere.
Thank you.
Warmly,
Bruce
PS. This quote statement will always be the subject for improvement. We will always return to this page — https://81018.com/petition/ — to update that statement! Another page to monitor is here: https://81018.com/continuity-symmetry-harmony/#Pi
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