Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • MATH: THE LANGLANDS PROGRAM (getting closer) OK. Gotta say. This is a bit on the

    http://publications.ias.edu/rpl/MORE MATH: THE LANGLANDS PROGRAM

    (getting closer)

    OK. Gotta say. This is a bit on the hard side. Most philosophy is nonsense, so it’s a matter of just sifting through it for a few fragments of gold. And I think I get number theory as well or better than anyone else. It LOOKS to me that I understand it correctly, given that Turing was so clear at operationalizing and demystifying math. (and Petzold helped too. And for me at least, not to forget Poincaré and Mandelbrot.) But the number of terms I have to learn here is just overtaxing my short term memory and I’ll probably have to write my own glossary just to make sure that I actually understand it all.

    Anyway, I don’t really have to understand or work on the mathematical problem – and I wouldnt be good at it. (Actually it’s like crack for nerds, and I’m afraid of being addicted to it.) I do have to understand the relevant language well enough that I can address mathematical platonism thoroughly.

    Work, work, work…. lol

    http://publications.ias.edu/rpl/

    Arthur, James (2003), “The principle of functoriality”, American Mathematical Society. Bulletin. New Series 40 (1): 39–53,

    Bernstein, J.; Gelbart, S. (2003), An Introduction to the Langlands Program, Boston: Birkhäuser

    Gelbart, Stephen (1984), “An elementary introduction to the Langlands program”, American Mathematical Society. Bulletin. New Series 10 (2): 177–219,

    Frenkel, Edward (2005). “Lectures on the Langlands Program and Conformal Field Theory”

    Gelfand, I. M. (1963), “Automorphic functions and the theory of representations”, Proc. Internat. Congr. Mathematicians (Stockholm, 1962), Djursholm: Inst. Mittag-Leffler, pp. 74–85

    Harris, Michael; Taylor, Richard (2001), The geometry and cohomology of some simple Shimura varieties, Annals of Mathematics Studies 151, Princeton University Press

    Henniart, Guy (2000), “Une preuve simple des conjectures de Langlands pour GL(n) sur un corps p-adique”, Inventiones Mathematicae 139 (2): 439–455,

    Kutzko, Philip (1980), “The Langlands Conjecture for Gl2 of a Local Field”, Annals of Mathematics 112 (2): 381–412,

    Langlands, Robert (1967), Letter to Prof. Weil

    Langlands, R. P. (1970), “Problems in the theory of automorphic forms”, Lectures in modern analysis and applications, III, Lecture Notes in Math 170, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 18–61

    Laumon, G.; Rapoport, M.; Stuhler, U. (1993), “D-elliptic sheaves and the Langlands correspondence”, Inventiones Mathematicae 113 (2): 217–338,

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-09 04:19:00 UTC

  • “Since the early 1980s, the American extreme right has evolved from a movement c

    “Since the early 1980s, the American extreme right has evolved from a movement characterized by ultra patriotism, to one increasingly characterized by nihilism.”

    Well. That’s true. I was there. We knew we couldn’t win. We chose to bankrupt the state by all means possible, before it destroyed us. And, had immigration not been so extensive, the strategy would have worked. But between minorities, immigrants and single mothers conservatives couldn’t to it. Not possible. By 92 it was impossible. That was probably the end.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-08 16:41:00 UTC

  • “Reality is that which, when we stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip

    “Reality is that which, when we stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-08 16:08:00 UTC

  • I keep trying to find some venue that I can use to work into the Right’s intelle

    I keep trying to find some venue that I can use to work into the Right’s intellectual stream. Unfortunately, it’s not possible. I mean, you know, an argument against something isn’t an argument FOR anything. It’s pretty hard to be against something if you aren’t FOR something ELSE.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-08 13:49:00 UTC

  • Skye Stewart shared a link to your timeline

    Skye Stewart shared a link to your timeline.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-08 13:48:00 UTC

  • VERY INTERESTING : ON INCEPTION What is the difference between socratic inceptio

    VERY INTERESTING : ON INCEPTION

    What is the difference between socratic inception, confucian inception, magian inception, and obscurant inception?

    very, very, interesting…. hmmmm…..

    1) suggestion is obvious on reflection – giving the answer.

    2) inception is not – suggestion of ideas that lead to a conclusion, not obvious on reflection.

    and

    3) metaphysical assumptions are not suggested or conscious, and therefore not obvious on reflection.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-08 09:13:00 UTC

  • Another watershed couple of days. I have my arms around the problem of mathemati

    Another watershed couple of days.

    I have my arms around the problem of mathematical platonism, and therefore all platonism. And I can argue that platonism, like obscurantism, is immoral, at least in public speech. And since I can prove platonism is unnecessary, and a remnant of primitive religion, then one must choose to perpetuate the immoral for convenience.

    But perhaps, more importantly, I can sort of sense, in a tip-of-the-tongue sort of way, the degree to which ‘babylonian magic’ still remains in western thought. A kind of dependence on the dream state that is not present in the germanic mythos, but is pervasive in monotheistic thought.

    What does it mean for our society when we emphasize the real, versus the dream? The acting versus the observing?

    Again, from the naturalist view, we have only so much time to think about what corresponds with reality, OR dream about what does not. Is then, magian thought, simply lost opportunity cost? And is that the entire point of magianism? To deprive people of the opportunity of thinking about alternatives in the real?

    Is the magian the ultimate source of Popper’s ignorance?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-08 06:54:00 UTC

  • VS ADELSON The future of gambling under siege by special interests?

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2014/01/06/the-biggest-bet-ever/SOROS VS ADELSON

    The future of gambling under siege by special interests?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-08 06:31:00 UTC

  • I am out of people’s comfort zones. lol Sorry. I’m not searching for justificati

    I am out of people’s comfort zones. lol

    Sorry. I’m not searching for justification. I’m looking for answers. Looking for justification is why libertarians failed.

    If you are looking for scientific truth then you don’t get to dislike the results. They are what they are.

    And you must alter your strategy accordingly.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-08 05:19:00 UTC

  • IGNORANCE OF MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY – CONTINUED I’ve been working my way throug

    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism-mathematics/LESS IGNORANCE OF MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY – CONTINUED

    I’ve been working my way through this reading list and it turns out that plenty of people have written on the subject, but it’s not clear that they understand the underlying problem of correspondence (even if they use the term ‘external authority’). And the best author in the space is incorrect, and the matter apparently isnt settled.

    So, now it’s off to articulate the solution to this particular problem, even in mathematics. That will sort of anchor the legitimacy of my argument in favor of operational language in all disciplines.

    Sigh.

    Roman is pushing me to publish and not to spend time outside of Politics and Ethics. But my instinct tells me that my argument (calculation) seems to invite the solution to unifying the ‘logics’ and, as I’d hoped, eliminating platonism as well as obscurantism.

    If in fact, the innovations that I’m adding to political ethics are largely in the realm of requiring calculability and operational language, then it would seem to me that I should also ground operational language and calculability.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-08 04:16:00 UTC