Polymathicus

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Science
Occupation Mathematician
Location United States
Introduction A passionate, inveterate, unrepentant traveller on many knowledge tracks
Interests Quantum Computing, Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, Logic, Foundations of Mathematics, Bibliophilia, Masks, Kilims, Chinese Internal Arts, Western Martial Arts, Modern and Classical Languages, World Literature, Game of GO, Myths, Fairy Tales, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Creative Writing, Applied Mathematics, Web Mining, Knowledge Visualization, Category Theory, Programming Language Design, Metaprogramming, History, Ultrafinitism, Baroque, Medieval Music, Violin, Mesoamerican Civilizations, Cats, Plants, Traditional Archery, Acting Methods, Comparative Religions, Hypnosis, Philosophy of Time, Phenomenology, Augmented Cognition, Social Networks, Computational Social Sciences, Self Reliant Living, Privacy, History of Science, Risotto, Psychogeography, Herbalism, Calligraphy, Handwriting Analysis, Polyglots, Polymaths
Favorite Movies The Seventh Seal, The Third Man, Casablanca, Blade Runner, Solaris, Continental Divide, Amarcord, Morte a Venezia, Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, La Voie Lactée, A Clockwork Orange, The Maltese Falcon, Apocalypse Now, Throne of Blood, Duel, Scarface, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Favorite Music Bach, Perotinus, Lassus, Tartini, Monteverdi, Corelli, Lully, Marin Marais, Paganini, Tartini, Zauberflöte, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Bill Evans, Glenn Gould, Stravinsky, Alice, Kim Carnes, Traditional Celtic Music, Gospels, Gamelan, Das Lied von der Erde, Hugo Wolf
Favorite Books Dante, Brothers Karamazov, Oblomov, Montaigne, Duineser Elegien, Jude The Obscure, Yeats, Eliade, Recoltes et Semailles, DaoDeJing, Nabokov, Le Grand Meaulnes, Malombra, Divina Commedia, Aeschylus, Karl Kraus, Qoeleth, Gita, Landolfi, Spinoza, Cavalcanti, Trobadours, Voyage to Arcturus, Mr. Weston's Good Wine, Algernon Blackwood, John Cowper Powys, Papini, Artaud, San Juan de la Cruz, Malraux, Goethe, Montale, Dino Campana, Leopardi, Kierkegaard, Marcus Aurelius, Rabelais, Ernst Jünger, Giordano Bruno, Vico, Attar, Husserl, Kawabata, Florensky, Witkiewicz, Saint Bonaventura, Abulafia, Louis Lambert, Stendhal, Dylan Thomas, The Road to Reality, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, Gongora, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Monsieur Teste, Benjamin Whorf