For Hemingway’s birthday:
Mathematics and Narrative, continued
“We know many little things about the relation between mathematics and narrative, but lack one big comprehensive insight.”
— John Allen Paulos (pdf)
“On Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002– 9/11/02– the New York State lottery numbers were 911, an eerie coincidence that set many people to thinking or, perhaps more accurately, to not thinking.”
“Time and chance happeneth to them all.”
— Ecclesiastes 9:11