APPENDIX B
“LAWS OF
FORM”
oil painting (50x70 cm.)
(inspired
by George Spencer Brown’s
Axioms of the “Primary Arithmetic”)
- History: I created this painting during
the early phases of contemplating "Laws
of Form". The original painting was sold (to an unknown client) at a one-man Exhibition in
"New Thought Gallery" (Athens, May 1980). The blue pyramid in the painting depicts George Spencer Brown’s two axioms of
the "Primary Arithmetic", in "Laws
of Form", corresponding to Multiple
Form Logic statements "1 # 1 = 0"
and "1 , 1 = 1", or to the Boolean expressions "1 xor 1 = 0","1 or 1 = 1").
- This poor
quality slide (taken with an
instamatic camera) is all that
remains today:
Henri
Poincaré quotation: A
scientist worthy of his name, above all a mathematician, experiences in his work
the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same
nature.
(quoted in
N Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh N C 1988).