Timeline for Mathematics or gibberish? Understanding a description of an alien message in His Master's Voice
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| Jul 11, 2017 at 16:35 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | @Gallifreyan If only :-) But we probably won't get many questions about mathematical books, or anything else that needs Mathjax. | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 16:26 | comment | added | Gallifreyan | Might be a reason to plead for MathJax support :D | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 23:40 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | @Hamlet Re the SFF link: the answer wasn't great (now improved), but even the question contained evidence of Lem's maths knowledge. To your last comment: yes, most probably, but what would really improve this even more would be being able to read the book in the source language. Unfortunately, I don't speak Polish maths jargon :-/ To your second comment: how does this not answer the question? I've "br[oken] down the mathematics or lack thereof in this passage", and tried to interpret the message being more like a "geometric solid [or] a genotype" than a "a story [or] a philosophical treatise". | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 22:38 | comment | added | user111 | I think you could definitely improve this answer by reading the full book: there probably are passages that you would find important but that I completely glossed over. | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 22:37 | comment | added | user111 | If this makes sense, my opinion about this answer is that it doesn't answer the question, but that it contains very useful and important information that is necessary to answer the question. (In mathematical terms, this question is the first half of a proof, so while useful, it can't be said to be a proof of the question, because the proof is not complete). So right now I'm leaning towards neither upvoting nor downvoting. | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 22:33 | comment | added | user111 | Thanks for the link to the blog post at the very end: that was very interesting. I wish you hadn't linked to the scifi question/answer, because the only source cited there is wikipedia. | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 21:21 | history | answered | Rand al'Thor♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |