I 1971, when I was 15, I was studying complex numbers and Taylor's series when I discovered the Euler identity. It was like the ultimate high and I was a math junky. I wanted to find a greater generalization of numbers than the complex numbers. I figured I needed something outside of mainstream mathematics. The Ackermann function seemed a good candidate and I couldn't find any material on tetration. I was extremely cocky when I came to mathematics and felt this was a serious problem I could take on. This is the origin of my obsession with complex numbers.
The next year I got hardcore into yoga and meditation. Mostly I felt connected with karma yoga, the yoga of social service. I was deeply inspired by Einstein for his science, humanity and natural spirituality. Unfortunately I felt such people were rare and we needed more. I thought I had the makings of an excellent scientist and spiritual potential to become a truly good person.
I'm afraid that, like others, I was bitten by the "use tetration to get famous" bug. I was 95% mad scientist and 5% wanting to be famous. Ironically part of the charm of tetration for me was the exclusivity, the intellectual isolation. Likely from my moderate autism. So I wanted to be famous for a subject no one would likely understand. That wasn't fated to work out well.
Currently I just got to retirement at sixty five with too much free time on my hands.
No longer working with Stephen Wolfram; no longer have Mathematica, so I need to learn GP-Pari.
The next year I got hardcore into yoga and meditation. Mostly I felt connected with karma yoga, the yoga of social service. I was deeply inspired by Einstein for his science, humanity and natural spirituality. Unfortunately I felt such people were rare and we needed more. I thought I had the makings of an excellent scientist and spiritual potential to become a truly good person.
I'm afraid that, like others, I was bitten by the "use tetration to get famous" bug. I was 95% mad scientist and 5% wanting to be famous. Ironically part of the charm of tetration for me was the exclusivity, the intellectual isolation. Likely from my moderate autism. So I wanted to be famous for a subject no one would likely understand. That wasn't fated to work out well.
Currently I just got to retirement at sixty five with too much free time on my hands.
No longer working with Stephen Wolfram; no longer have Mathematica, so I need to learn GP-Pari.
Daniel
