How Group Theory Dispelled My Worry About Mirrors.
Friday, September 17, 2010 - 14:07
in Psychology & Sociology
I remember, as a child, being very upset by a ventriloquist’s dummy at a show, and crying out and making a ‘scene’. Even well into my teens and beyond, I felt disturbed by “magic”, even in mathematics or science. One particular incident I remember was being shown in class the ‘proof’, by an elementary form a calculus of variations, that the shortest path[1] between two coordinates is a straight line. This left me with an uncomfortable feeling. read more
