Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0008671, Sun, 28 Sep 2003 11:19:04 -0700

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Fw: Fw: MARY KRIMMEL ON FRACTALS lemniscates
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From: STADLEN@aol.com
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: MARY KRIMMEL ON FRACTALS


In a message dated 28/09/2003 18:37:21 GMT Standard Time, chtodel@cox.net writes:


putting the golden rectangles into the collection of connotations of the
>lemniscate of line 137 is too much of a stretch


Ah, but is not 137 the "fine structure constant of the universe" (Eddington)?

It is, but there's an awful lot of stretching going on.

Anthony Stadlen

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