Re: A quest for two(irrational) numbers

In article <rO6dnWC6evJ7LADUnZ2dnUVZ_hmWnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Onoit <Onoit@xxxxxxx> wrote:

, but
could not understand what it means that there are exactly
26 sporadic simple groups,

There are also 26 letters in the alphabet.

This coincidence has been pointed out; it has no
significance whatever. That the number of sporadic
simple groups is finite is surprising.

People feel intimidated by math because it's not as intuitive
to them as other things are. And the reverse is true when you
tell them you have a degree in the Liberal Arts - people think
it's easy.

It's not so easy to count the words and the letters in
"Jabberwocky." It would be nice if there was some computer software to count
and group letters and words. Here is where a mathematician could contribute
to the liberal arts. Or maybe just a computer scientist, although
amathematician could probably come up ith some really neat ways of analyzing
words and letters.

There are computer programs now which could count the words
and letters of "Jabberwocky", or of the Torah or Tanakh in
any English translation or Hebrew. These are facts, which
will change with the language in which it is written. Such
studies have been made of the plays of Shakespeare, for example.

Mathematical analysis of literary style has been attempted,
and is not too successful. The reason is that the subject
matter, as well as the style, affect the numerical criteria
studied. Material data are not as clear as mathematics; one
gets into very difficult statistical problems.





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