OEIS on vacation in December

[Jonathan Post]

Jonathan Sondow is by far one of the most brilliant mathematical Jonathans,
along with Jonathan Borwein and others we could name. I am not at his level
of achievement at all. The Sondow Sequences are all, to me, beautiful, and
always deeply mathematical, and always publishable by journal standards.

The word "artificial" is almost impossible to axiomatize, time-varying, and
subjective.

The science fiction writer, Poul Anderson, in his short story "A Tragedy of
Errors" wrote:

"When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first
time, he called it 'awful, pompous, and artificial.' Meaning roughly:
Awesome, majestic, and ingenious."

Best,

Jonathan Vos Post

On 12/5/06, Jonathan Sondow <jsondow at alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:
>
> On 12/5/06 9:19 AM Thomas Baruchel wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, N. J. A. Sloane wrote:
> >> - don't send in sequences that you made up (unless
> >> they are really beautiful - and if they
> >> are base dependent or involve primes
> >> they are probably not)
> >
> > Just a question ; I do understand very well why base dependent sequences
> > aren't really beautiful, but I sincerely wonder why sequences which
> > involve prime numbers "are probably not". Why? Aren't they the most
> > beautiful ones?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Thomas Baruchel
>
> Sequences involving primes "that you made up" are often artificial, hence
> not beautiful.
>
> Jonathan Sondow
>
>
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