"God created Integers, the rest is work of men." Leopold Kronecker …
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The story goes like this: Pythagoras had gone to meet a friend; only to find that his friend kept him waiting in the living room for sometime. Having nothing else to do, Pythogoras did what all of us often end up doing: He kept staring at the regular tiling pattern of the floor. …
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When I was young, visiting the barber shop was a fascinating experience because of the mirrors. In most barber shops in India, there are two rows of mirrors on opposite parallel walls (i.e. the mirrors face each other) and when I was put atop that fancy barber's chair; I would see an infinite number of images of my head in the mirrors. Naturally; as a child, I used to endeavour to see where the series of images all ended and could never fathom why even after me shifting my head around, I could never quite catch the ending of the series. It only resulted in me getting a bad haircut, and the barber getting annoyed. And that has more or less remained a trade mark with me (in fact, both the haircut and the annoying of people :-) ) …
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4. The elephant on the other side of the wall
When I was very young I had once pestered my father for a sketch. He drew very well, but he was always busy. So he took a piece of paper and drew a horizontal line across it. Then he drew an arc above the horizontal line. He gave that to me, telling me that he had now given me a drawing. I was perplexed.
I refused to accept the sketch. I told him that the drawing is incomplete or didn't make sense and he was trying to get away from me. "It makes perfect sense," he replied. Then he asked me to guess what he had drawn. I could not. He answered: "An elephant". I was still perplexed. He then clarified: "An elephant on the other side of a wall" …
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5. To p or not p, that is the question
Ah… Shakespeare once again… this time with a lisp. But this is not really an analogy: The title of this article reflects the conundrum that many architects invariably finds themselves in but often does not verbalize sufficiently. Like Hamlet, one should be contemplating on the issue of "self-murder" but often we do not. At least Hamlet spent some time on "to be or not to be". Many of us simply go ahead and commit professional suicide The central question in this article is therefore: When a piece of architecture is being designed out there in the world, is it a real solution to a problem, or is it that the architect got just one solution and nobody can really be sure whether there could be another solution more apt than the one presented? Can one really know? Maybe mathematics could help unravel this issue further …
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In this article, I shall attempt to tie together some disparate concepts: architecture, mathematics, lovers, trains, music, stories and well, Shakespeare. None of them in any particular order. I hope it will make some sense. …
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