"Rocks upon rocks in dire confusion hurl’d, / A rent and formless mass, the rubbish of a world"

[larryhammer]

Some scholarly links. Feel free to school them as appropriate:

You can download free PDFs of all 21 volumes of the University of Chicago's Dictionary of Akkadian, with bonus link to a recording of part of Gilgamesh in the original. (via)

"In a breakthrough that disproves decades of conventional wisdom, two mathematicians have shown that two different variants of infinity are actually the same size." (via)

A very meaty article about the relationship between laws of physics and axioms of mathematics, and how they are selected. (The horrible title does not accurately represent the actual content.) (via?)

---L.

Subject quote from "Mador of the Moor," Canto I, James Hogg.

Comments

[sovay]

"In a breakthrough that disproves decades of conventional wisdom, two mathematicians have shown that two different variants of infinity are actually the same size."

I love this headline.

[larryhammer]

:-)

[larryhammer]

So do I.