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2nd December 2009

• 2nd December 2009
  I Love it When This Happens Asides | (0 Comments)

  A few days ago I wrote about fractals. Yesterday I listened to an audiobook by David Foster Wallace ((I'll write about him sometime.)). Yesterday evening, I decided to do some more research about fractals. I scrolled down to the bottom of Wikipedia's page on fractals - I hadn't scrolled that far the other day - and who would happen to be mentioned right there? Yep, David Foster Wallace. In a 1996 interview David Foster Wallace admitted that the structure of his novel Infinite Jest was inspired by fractals, specifically the Sierpinski triangle. I know that it's sheer coincidence, but I love how things that ...

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  I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.