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Numbers In Heaven (Free verse) by Dovina

My name is 183, one of myriad, born in heaven, nestled eternally between two evens, and called, with affection, odd. Some of us are prime, numbers so perfect they were flung to distant worlds, if maybe there, their beauty too might be beheld. I take delight in knowing I am certain, fixed and real, never to be forsaken or replaced, unique, useful, unmatched and unmatchable. Pregnant with potential in Platonic minds, we odds alone, save the chosen 2, titillate their senses. Sometimes in anxious moments, Senses failing, in the wonder of it all, I feel an urgent sadness, imagine myself a figment of their god-like minds, a bipolar disturbance, perhaps a mere conveyance, no more than an assertion, a useful word. Then I feel contrived by them for pleasure and convenience, lovely only in their minds. But as the notion passes, I rest in heavenly peace, unequaled and real, fixed and founded, uniquely placed by God.

ecargo 13-Mar-06/2:39 PM
Well, this starts to get a little beyond my comfort level in terms of what math actually "does" vis-a-vis reality. But "reality"--our understanding of what that means--shifts at any given point in time, doesn't it? And some of those shifts resulted from mathematics. So--is that bringing something 'new' (in terms of our understanding of reality) into being, as art does? Or is it just discovering what already exists? I honestly don't know. It's certainly an debate that's been going on (among much keener minds than mine) for a long time. Platonism or Formalism or something else entirely? Godel talked quite a bit about math being interpretive of abstract reality rather than empirical reality. Maybe that's not such a bad place to start thinking about this stuff.

My head hurts.









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