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Manuscript / memoir page / essay
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Summary
This page appears to be an excerpt from a memoir or philosophical essay (likely by Jeffrey Epstein given the context of House Oversight documents and his known association with scientific funding). The narrator reflects on the tension between intuition and logic, recounting a lecture at IHES by mathematician Dennis Sullivan regarding the Mandelbrot set. The text also discusses non-Euclidean geometry and references personal discussions with mathematician René Thom regarding his work 'Semiophysics' and the nature of reality.
People (3)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| The Narrator ('I') | Author/Observer |
Self-described 'amateur' mathematician attending a lecture at IHES; discusses personal beliefs on intuition vs logic.
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| Dennis Sullivan | Mathematician |
World class dynamical systems theorist and differential geometer-topologist; gave a lecture at IHES observed by the n...
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| Thom | Mathematician/Philosopher |
Refers to René Thom; author of 'Semiophysics'; engaged in discussions with the narrator about mental and real world o...
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Organizations (1)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| IHES (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques) |
Timeline (1 events)
Unknown ('many decades later')
Locations (1)
| Location | Context |
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Relationships (2)
Narrator attended Sullivan's lecture at IHES.
Narrator mentions 'In my discussions with him' referring to Thom.
Key Quotes (3)
"An important Ph.D. dissertation is waiting to be done on the question: is this (pointing to the little object) really there?"Source
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"In the audience of about a hundred professional mathematicians and one amateur, I was the only one that laughed."Source
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"Objections raised to the Kantian apriority of Euclidean geometry after the discovery of non-Euclidean geometries... appear to me to be irrelevant...they deal with ...the infinitely small and infinitely large...which lies outside the usual cognitive activity of ancient man."Source
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