Thom and Dieudonne kept their lunacy on the sly. Mandelbrot threw books at people. Grothendieck's /Recoltes et Semailles/ is a strange read. That Mandelbrot is the least weird of them is tricky to digest.
There's weird swirly stuff with patterns in motion which tends to subvert the kind of mereotopologies philosophical Think-o-Persons tend to start doorstop books "My new Reality-o-System..." with
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(I am being unfair. But I sort of want to pay attention to where pattern gets weird and that's part of the motivation for spending time on chainmail lattices: they might not be realizable atomically, but they're a lot less slippery than point lattices)
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results from October: http://owen.maresh.info/cmhp.html I can talk ears off about this. The models
@ikefeitler printed tend to derail attention so I have to be judicious about their use. I have yet to make it to Catalan solid skeleta. - 2 more replies
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