The three main characters “spend much of the play discussing quantum mechanics, string theory and Schrödinger’s Cat experiment….
Ms. Buggé’s frequently clever script makes the audience feel smart by offering up fairly recognizable literary references (from, among other things, T. S. Eliot’s ‘Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ and William Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’). But the play suffers from abrupt, sometimes motivation-free exits and entrances.”
As does life itself.
Yau rated the conjecture as one of the major mathematical puzzles of the 20th Century. |
| Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! |
on this date:
There is one story and one story only
That will prove worth your telling….
— Robert Graves,
“To Juan at the Winter Solstice”
Exits and Entrances:
Halmos exited on Yom Kippur.
He may or may not achieve
re-entry. For details, see
Log24 entries of Oct. 1-15:
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Related material:
The Unity of Mathematics,
Heisenberg on Beauty, and
Theme and Variations.