[MD] Oneness, Dualism & Intellect

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Mati Palm-Leis <mpalm at merr.com>:

> If you want a metaphysical understanding of Reality that does not delineate
> itself then you really aren't interested in metaphysics but reality itself.
> If so I humbly suggest a beautiful sunset, snow falling gently to earth, or
> a smile of child. 

As I have often said, beauty guides us to what is most real. So I agree
with Mati's statement above and bring to your attention a clip from an
article in "Physics World" that points once again to beauty seen in places
not usually thought of:

"When the 14-year-old Richard Feynman first encountered eip + 1 = 0, the future
physics Nobel laureate wrote in big, bold letters in his diary that it was
"the most remarkable formula in math". Stanford University mathematics professor
Keith Devlin claims that "like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very
essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that
is far more than just skin deep, Euler's equation reaches down into the very
depths of existence". Meanwhile Paul Nahin - a retired US electrical engineer 
- says in his recent book, Dr Euler's Fabulous Formula, that the expression sets
"the gold standard for mathematical beauty"." 

(p in the above formula refers to pi) 

Platt 


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