Maths, was Time-line inconsistency from Quidditch

[Amy Z]

Barb wrote:

> I'm also fairly good at math (you can tell I'm American), and must 
> use it because I'm studying architecture, but I still feel more 
like 
> an artist who uses math and physics as a tool, rather than an 
> engineer.  However, I do find that mathematicians can be very good 
> writers; wasn't Lewis Carroll some kind of mathematics teacher?  

Some kind.  An Oxford don, some of whose work, correct me if I'm 
wrong, is still significant (I recall reading up on his Voters' 
Paradox for a political philosophy class--the paradox demonstrates 
that if a group is given three options to vote on, the outcome is 
heavily dependent on what order they are presented for a vote).

Amy
thoroughgoing humanities type who also reads S. J. Gould for 
pleasure, listened to _Six Easy Pieces_, series of introductory 
physics lectures by Richard Feynman (and understood about two-thirds 
of the physics), and has three Gleick books on her reading list . . .