I recently paid a visit to the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington
Gardens, London to see Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, a
long-time friend with whom I have a mutual connection: we both
worked closely with the late James Lee Byars, the conceptual artist
who, in 1971, implemented "The World Question Center" as a work of
conceptual art.
The walls of Obrist's office were covered with single pages of size
A4 paper on which artists, writers, scientists had responded to his
question: "What Is Your Formula?" Among the pieces were formulas by
quantum physicist David Deutsch, artist and musician Brian Eno,
architect Rem Koolhaas, and fractal mathematician Benoit
Mandelbrot.
Some interesting formulas
- DANNY KAHNEMAN Psychologist, Princeton; Recipient, 2002 Nobel Prize
in Economic Sciences
<http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/serpentine07/Kahneman.html>
- MARVIN MINSKY Computer Scientist; 1st Generation Artificial
Intelligence Pioneer, MIT; Author, The Emotion Machine: Commonsense
Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
<http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/serpentine07/Minsky.html>
- PAUL BLOOM Psychologist, Yale University; Author, Descartes' Baby
<http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/serpentine07/Bloom.html>
- RICHARD DAWKINS Evolutionary Biologist, Charles Simonyi Professor
For The Understanding Of Science, Oxford University; Author, The
God Delusion
<http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/serpentine07/Dawkins.html>
A lot of formulas use symbols that I did not understand :-/
Link: formulae for the 21st century
