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12 12  What was at stake for me in the piece was whether the most abstract theorem I knew, the most apparently removed from the human that I knew but also allegedly very profound (in what it distills; the Yoneda Lemma is not so much a complex piece of math in itself, as a tool, or a result that shows that the abstract language of category theory "works"), could become literary in a significant & affective way. I feel, in this literally sophomoric attempt, that the answer is no. But maybe a better writer could pull it off.
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14 -It was formatted and submitted for this conference on Math And Art, which sounded amazing to me at the time. It was rejected, because it was bad; however I was also suspected of plagiarism by the final reviewer, because I'd posted a draft on a blog, not under my name but under that character of Calvino's which has, for whatever reason, become default pseudonym. Out of spite, I have not attended the conference. I found out about the math / art conference because a summer research thing I did in Iowa took us to the big math conference in Seattle (the Joint Math Meetings) and they had a poetry night, with flyers on the seat. Me and my partner had been rejected from the other undergrad research conference because we forgot to remove the Latex dollar signs around math symbols. The poetry night was really sad: it opened with this painter / speaker who had done math before and had a blurb from Denise Levertov, but in fact just told this impossibly banal love story while comparing the John and Susan style lovers to something from set theory or whatever, in front of the worst kind of imitative, commoditized form, abstract expressionism (ie bright colors for the man and the woman), and then there was an open reading. It provoked professional and existential dread (the place designated for me is no place for me! And yet I knew people existed at this intersection: Barry Mazur, Vladimir Tasic, //Nicanor Parra//). There was like one real poet getting his mfa or something from JHU and then a lot of older professors and algebra teachers who'd written limericks and sonnets about differentiation or whatever. All very aspiring-to-and-failing-to-reach irritated [[James Maxwell>>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45776/lines-written-under-the-conviction-that-it-is-not-wise-to-read-mathematics-in-november-after-ones-fire-is-out]]. I read a shifting lippogram which one person told me on the escalator he thought was cool! This ameliorated some of the professional and existential dread.
14 +It was formatted and submitted for this conference on Math And Art, which sounded amazing to me at the time. It was rejected, because it was bad (what disgusting metaphors, cloying phrasing!); however I was also suspected of plagiarism by the final reviewer, because I'd posted a draft on a blog, not under my name but under that character of Calvino's which has, for whatever reason, become default pseudonym. Out of spite, I have not attended the conference.
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16 +I found out about the math / art conference because a summer research thing I did in Iowa took us to the big math conference in Seattle (the Joint Math Meetings) and they had a poetry night, with flyers on the seat. Me and my partner had been rejected from the other undergrad research conference because we forgot to remove the Latex dollar signs around math symbols. The poetry night was really sad: it opened with this painter / speaker who had done math before and had a blurb from Denise Levertov, but in fact just told this impossibly banal love story while comparing the John and Susan style lovers to something from set theory or whatever, in front of the worst kind of imitative, commoditized form, abstract expressionism (ie bright colors for the man and the woman), and then there was an open reading. It provoked professional and existential dread (the place designated for me is no place for me! And yet I knew people existed at this intersection: Barry Mazur, Vladimir Tasic, //Nicanor Parra//). There was like one real poet getting his mfa or something from JHU and then a lot of older professors and algebra teachers who'd written limericks and sonnets about differentiation or whatever. All very aspiring-to-and-failing-to-reach irritated [[James Maxwell>>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45776/lines-written-under-the-conviction-that-it-is-not-wise-to-read-mathematics-in-november-after-ones-fire-is-out]]. I read a mediocre shifting lippogram which one person told me on the escalator he thought was cool! This ameliorated some of the professional and existential dread.
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16 16  All this to say, I'm glad I learned early just how much the academy cares about its punctuation (you might read this wiki as a sort of protest of that fact). Not that punctuation isn't great. Another time I went to a packed talk in Modern Culture and Media (a department I failed to sufficiently study) by a French theorist, whose name I do not remember, that was sort of about how punctuation is where affect enters the encoded linear text, and it was really cool, he brought out a Chekhov story about a bureaucrat who dreams of processing exclamation marks, and the page of Tristram Shandy that's just a giant period registering a death; he leaned a bit hard on biologically-essentialist psychoanalytic shit though, I must say, the spice I admit an aversion to which limits my enjoyment of the entire cuisine.
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18 18  == Theory: [[Category Theory>>https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/category+theory]] ==

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