Category Archives: Mathematics

Creating ones self

Posted on April 19, 2012 by dougstinson

In his blog on technology for the writer’s group The Loft, my friend Don reinterprets the Ouroboros, conventional “he who eats the tail” as “that which creates itself by speaking itself.” I know I’m supposed to think the Ouroboros paradoxical. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Mathematics, Religion, Science | Tagged Creation, Epimenides, Fibonacci, fibonacci series, Hofstadter, Ouroboros, recursion, recursive function, Regeneration, religion, science, self-reference, self-referential, strange loops, Swedenborg, The Loft, theology | Leave a comment

Phi? Phi not!

Posted on September 3, 2011 by dougstinson

Each month the Fremont Photographic Society runs a contest that includes a “special topic” category. In August the topic was “curves”. I was at a loss for a subject until my wife, Joy, suggested I photograph a shell. A first I … Continue reading →

Posted in Mathematics, Photography, Religion, Science, Uncategorized | Tagged Divine Proportion, geometry, Golden Mean, golden spiral, Logarithmic Spiral, mathematics, mollusc, phi, philosophy, photography, shell, truth | 2 Comments

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Phi? Phi not!

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