{ Monday, April 7, 2003 }
From his obituary:
Dr. Coxeter, whose childhood fascination with symmetry led to his career in mathematics, was driven by the idea that beautiful explanations exist for all puzzles. Several mathematical concepts have been named for him, including Coxeter groups.
He was also a student of Wittgenstein. If you scroll down this page you can see the very beautiful polytopes he is famous for (and on that page there is also the lovely description (which I suspect the NYTimes obituarist had cribbed) of what a "Platonist" is: "Coxeter is a Platonist, a person who believes that beautiful explanations exist for all puzzles" .)
LINK | 12:57 PM | TB
I've never seen hypercubes drawn that way, and I didn't even know that a method existed for drawing a 5D "cube". Talk about *neato*.
Also, I'm really dying for a "[insertname] is a person who believes that [insertmodifier] explanations exist for all beautiful puzzles". Surely someone has something good for that.
Stewart | April 8, 2003 2:15 AMMay I recommend:
A: Rorty
B: pragmatic
As in:
"Richard Rorty is a person who believes that what? that pragmatic explanations exist for what? For all puzzles."
Or:
A: Phil Donohue
B: revealing
What Stewart needs for 'insertname' is 'optimist', I reckon, as long as 'insertmodifier' is something like 'good' or 'neat' or 'elegant'.
Coxeter was a student of Wittgenstein? As in studied with him, or read him and admired him from afar?
mark | April 8, 2003 4:44 AMA Socratist is a person who believes that long-winded explanations exist for all puzzles.
capodistria | April 8, 2003 11:34 AMA Witgensteinian is a person who believes philosophical puzzles have solutions so neat they're not even puzzles - at least not puzzles to a higher being outside the flybottle such as himself.
mark | April 8, 2003 3:15 PMMy Uncle Yorick (now dead, alas) was also a student of Wittgenstein. In later life he went nuts - or some would say, came to his senses - and set fire to a church.
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And there's a new biog of him out soon, I saw it advertised by some publisher at some book fair somewhere...
bhikku | April 8, 2003 1:50 AMAnd my publisher might be going to, what? Publish, what? Publish a UK edition.