A scholium on the link to Pythagoras
in this morning's previous post Figurate Numbers:
For related number mysticism, see Chapter 8, "Magic Numbers,"
in Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality,
by Edward Frenkel (Basic Books, Oct. 1, 2013).
(Click for clearer image.)
See also Frenkel's Metaphors in this journal.
* The wannabe of the title is of course not Langlands, but Frenkel.