[HN Gopher] Photos of Roger Penrose's journal
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Photos of Roger Penrose's journal
Author : Brajeshwar
Score : 83 points
Date : 2023-11-14 16:42 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| bmitc wrote:
| What is the source of these journal photos? I would love to see
| more.
| gilleain wrote:
| The 'visit source' button links to an Amazon listing of
| Penrose's book
| JoshGG wrote:
| It links to his author page. Are you able to tell if the
| journal images are all taken from a book? Which book? There
| are multiple books on the Amazon page.
| gilleain wrote:
| Good point, sadly i have no idea
| bmitc wrote:
| Yea, as the other person mentioned, it just links to his
| Amazon author page. I have several of his books already and
| am not aware of any such journal photos.
| srvmshr wrote:
| I genuinely don't want to sound pedantic or critical - but anyone
| who dabbled in maths - from olympiads in school or undergrad or
| did math for research - would have several such notes for e.g. of
| graph theoretic models or combinatorics doodles. I used to color
| mine, or had different dashes/bold schemes for visualization of
| my problem space.
|
| I think blog author came across this & found it beautiful (good
| for him!). But IRL this type of doodling is commonplace among
| math folks.
|
| From their viewpoint, most mathematician's I've met, admire
| someone's blackboard skills - handwriting, problem layout, &
| Hagomoro chalks. And the second one would be the
| witty/intelligent communication in their papers, book or seminal
| work - which sometimes gain cult status in their small circles.
| contravariant wrote:
| Something can be both commonplace and nice to look at. I found
| it interesting to see the ways it resembled and differed from
| my own notes.
| gilleain wrote:
| Sure, it's fair to say that most mathematicians would have
| similar journals (I guess? - has anyone asked :))
|
| I'm not a mathematician, but I have journals with pictures of
| knots, protei folds, chemical structures, graphs (Eulerian),
| and so on. Are they as beautiful as the Nobel prize winners?
| Probably not.
|
| I like the diversity on just these pages though - Feynman
| diagrams, a projective plane, some kind of tiling ...
| jesuslop wrote:
| Fano plane, quaternions...
| mathematicaster wrote:
| This, and more ..
|
| ... all the way out to the digital frontier of professional
| wacom tablets and 4 feet wide plotters. A fun hobby for some.
| haswell wrote:
| To me, this makes the doodles more interesting for a few
| reasons:
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| 1. Penrose obviously is well known, so I'm more likely to pay
| attention
|
| 2. This is more about seeing how mathematicians think and less
| about a specific individual
|
| 3. There's something cool about seeing that people in the field
| all start from the same foundation, and it brings Penrose back
| down to earth a bit
| abdullahkhalids wrote:
| Most people live in houses, and at the basic level all houses
| are the same, and yet Charles Darwin's house is a widely
| visited heritage site [1].
|
| We are humans, and we are social creatures, who care about such
| things.
|
| [1] https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/home-of-
| cha...
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| slightly off topic: anyone have suggestions for good
| introductions to birdtrack graphical reps?
| GreedClarifies wrote:
| This is either madness... or brilliance.
|
| It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.
|
| :)
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