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Children as Only Pure Scientists:
"Let yourself be a child. . . . Do the drawings have meaning for a child? The greatest scientists are children. They want to experience everything for themselves. You say the paint is wet, and they still want to touch it. It looks wet, smells wet, but is it wet?
"‘Tetrascroll’ is the distillation of everything I think and feel in mathematics… But it is all told through the mouth of Goldylocks… and the story of the Three Bears in Goldy’s words.
"It all boils down to a new way of looking at the Universe. The tetrahedron–not the cube, as we were taught in school–is the basic pattern. A cube will collapse under pressure, a tetrahedron never, since each side pushes against and holds up the other–like a lever. There are 30 different relationships in a tetrahedron, among faces, edges, and corners. So there are 30 different ways of looking at anything.
"Tetrahedrons, like people or snakes, when they move forward, do so from side to side, not straight ahead. So the way to look for solutions is to your side, not to the front of you…
¶ Citations
- RbF to Amei Wallach in NEWSDAY, 6 Feb’77
