Writing

Harlan Brothers in Cantor’s Paradise

I think we should send all of Bach; but of course we would be bragging, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance.” ―Lewis Thomas (1913–1993)

More than two centuries separate The Art of Fugue, written by Johann Sebastian Bach, and the primitive computer printout of the first graphical representation of what is arguably the most famous fractal...

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