In memory of
Gian-Carlo Rota,
mathematician, who died
at 66 on this date in 1999

“Numbers go to heaven
who know no more
of God on earth than,
as it were,
of sun in forest gloom.”

— Meister Eckhart,
In Principio Erat Verbum

Related material:

The Shining of May 29,

 yesterday’s entry, and

Against Reductionism.