I subscribe to the MaplePrimes blog RSS feed. They have occasional blog entries about the Maple programming language. It's a programming language that is very well suited for certain mathematical problems, and I use it a lot. Today I was looking through my RSS subscriptions and I found a tribute to Pi day on the MaplePrimes blog. The tribute wasn't all that interesting, just a pie chart of the relative frequencies of the digits 0-9 in the first 200 decimal places of Pi. The interesting part was the comments on the Blog because it has stuff about how to differently write aspects of his program. In any case it brought on a short conversation about the Greek language. Then I came across this bizarre quote in one of the comments:
The Greek alphabet is the foundation of our written and spoken language. And it is the foundation of our mathematical system. And God embedded His Word through the Greek alphabet system. For in them we can understand who God is. For in the beginning, God was alpha, for He was the Maker. And Christ is pi, for He is the narrow Gate. And iota is the Holy Spirit for He penetrates the hearts of all men. And omega is the consolidation of the three, for omega is the end and the completion of all things.
I can't really figure out if it is a joke or not. It's really not funny, so I think he was actually being serious. I really don't know exactly where to start because almost every sentence is all wrong, slightly wrong, or just bizarre. I guess I can accept that it's not necessarily *too* wrong to say that the Greek alphabet is the foundation of our written and spoken language, but the *alphabet* is the foundation of math. What's that even mean?? I really dislike his use of embedding; it's not very mathematically accurate. But what's really weird is, "Christ is pi"?? and "iota is the Holy Spirit"?? I have no idea how iota represents the idea of penetrating the hearts of all men. In any case, what a weird comment...
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