MADTHEMADTICKS
[MAD-THE-MAD-TICKS]
BY
S. MAHESHKUMAR
GREATEST Unsolved problems of Mathematics when solved after years of incessant labour are never useful as far as our practical life is concerned. Fermat’s Last Theorem was considered the ever deceiving seducer and remained so until the 1990s when Prof. Andrew Wiles proved it to be true that there exist no integers (Positive) satisfying the equation X to the power n + Y to the power n = Z to the power n (n > 2). Prof. Andrew Wiles’ conquest was not hailed or celebrated as anticipated due to the Theorem’s practical irrelevance. Even The Mathematics Nobel Prize equivalent called The Fields Medal was denied to Prof. Andrew Wiles! This is what the Mathematicians do for themselves indeed! In other words, this is how the curse of Mathematics punishes its savants with! Another unworthy unsolved problem of Mathematics is The Riemann Hypothesis. When there was no other source to entertain our ancestors unlike at present, they indulged in severe Confusion theories concerning Numbers. Till today, there is no clear saneful explanation as to what a Number is! But we see several concepts flourish to decay and perish in Mathematics all the time. Mathematics is never a subject to devote our worthy lives. It never deserves our energies as a Mode of Worshipment. Ramanujan was severely afflicted with the Madness called Mathematicosis, which took his life like that of Galois. Mathematical activity is not at all a life justifying pursuit. It becomes baleful and meaningless in its advanced stages. It advocates Confusion and Madness when we go deep into its Foundations. We cannot be proud of its advancement always as it is ‘Mad’vanced as soon as it becomes Advanced.
After reducing all Mathematics to Logic in their joint venture, ‘Principia Mathematica’, Whitehead and Russell thought that their work would be flawless and would ever remain as an Edifice in Eternity. But when Gödel detected Loopholes in ‘Principia Mathematica’ and published his Inconsistency Results, Whitehead and Russell’s dream was shattered! Whitehead put an end to his Mathematical career and switched over to Philosophy later without realising that he escaped the Hunter’s Arrow only to succumb to the Butcher’s Knife. Russell corrupted everything he touched thereafter and spent his rest of life in Madness as his Biographer Roy Monk appropriately titled the Second Volume of Russell’s Biography as ‘The Ghost of Madness’ concluding his verdict on Russell’s illness as ‘A deep seated fear of Madness and a quite colossal vanity!’ After Gödel slaughtered ‘Principia Mathematica’ and thus Whitehead and Russell, he tried to find solace in his ‘Unadulterated Platonic Realism’ as per Russell’s curse which is nothing but ‘Mathematical Realism’ and spent his time as a Hypochondriac, killing himself by self-starvation in the end. These were what Mathematics had done to its Explorers! The world is not moved by the Forces as interpreted by Mathematics or by the Divine Will as Philosophy Prophesies or as per God’s Intension mentioned in Religious Dogmas, etc. Numbers are to Mathematics as Truth is to Philosophy and God is to Religion, the root of all self-decaying Phenomena as long as these entities survive in Confusion and suck our energies as the Parasite ‘TICK’ sucks Dog’s Blood. Life is Everything and Nothing juxtaposed and our mission is to mix and merge these two extremes within and out of us. All the other things must end in bringing together Confusion and Madness.
The useful part of Mathematics is learning to tackle with the Mundane Elements and the dangerous part of it is preoccupying the Mind with Viciousness resulting in Unwanted Curious Abstract Tough Stuff. Mathematics traps the ardent admirer of it by promising Eternity and later Preys on the Mathematician’s Brain and Consumes it’s Victim’s Life. It took the life of Archimedes who was so absorbed in his Mathematical Rubbish asking to wait until he finished with the Mathematical Mess to which the Soldier, who was sent by his King to Summon Archimedes (with the intension of honouring the All Time Genius), misunderstood that Archimedes disobeyed the King’s Decree by doing something else instead of coming with him, got enraged and slain the poor man. Pascal was tormented by Mathematico-Philosophical-Religiosis. All his life, Pascal practiced self-torture trying to overcome his Confusions. Descartes advocated several theories in Mathematics and Philosophy in order to please others, especially, the Royal Women Folk, one of whom Adam-teased him by pretending to be interested in Descartes’ Cartesianism, ordered to rise earliest in the mornings to teach her which killed him due to sleeplessness caused by changing the routine habit of getting late from bed suddenly. These three men were Mad about Mathematics to the extent of becoming its Sacrifice.
We can argue in defence of Mathematics by mentioning that Mathematics is Fundamental to the Sciences, etc. This is certainly so as long as Science remains less Mathematical. If it allows Mathematics to dominate like in Theoretical Physics, say, The Theory of Relativity, Astrophysics, etc., the fruits of these Mathematical dominations are simply useless as far as our limited lives are concerned. All its useful portions, we utilise, but the rest in Mathematics, we must discard. There is no use in calculating how many Prime Numbers are there under Infinity, etc., and like Landau who Confused by writing Bulky Volumes on Prime Numbers, etc., Mathematicosis prompts these people to invent peculiar ways of justifying and cheating everybody inclusive of themselves in order to hail their time Wastedness in the form of Authoring such Useless Treatises. These books are doomed to be forgotten and disappear uncared! At present it is crystal clear that Mathematics is Rotten, Saturated, Repetitive, Corruptive, Nothing Special About and lost it’s Past Glory, which was Misattributed and Mispresupposed!
We admire Beauty of various kinds not because they are pleasing but just because they fill our Mind’s Vacuum so that the sole business of our life as to transform and transfuse Nothing with Everything is carried on. Numerising is acting against our Life’s Purpose and is the root of the Miserable Madness Prevailing in Mathematics. Instead of filling the Mind’s Void, Mathematics overburdens it with Bundles of Confusions. As a result, the Mind’s Emptiness becomes enlarged and at the stage when Life’s Purpose is unattended to for so long a time, Madness of Mathematics establishes itself Ruthlessly as a Parasite and Consumes all our Potencies. Mathematics, the Mental Parasite must be wiped out from spreading like the Materialistic Soul-less Epidemic of our own Self-imposition by the way of it’s making us Madly Addicted to it. Now is the time to take our Life-Course afresh, giving importance to Life’s Actual Purposes leading us to Liberation. Mathematics, Philosophy and Religion are unworthy of our most valuable Time to be spent in Doing, Studying and Following them respectively if these Disciplines Diverge into Darkness. These Subjects so far remained same in their Central Core of Confusion by always Focussing upon the Externalities of the World without Minding the Root of Everything which is nothing but THE ZERO. Let us Revive & Reinvent these Subjects and live our Life without yielding to Confusion, Madness and Uselessness. That must be the Greatest Renaissance Ever Effected in the History of Mankind for the benefit of the Liberation En Masse and this Intellectual Revolution is the Ultimate Need of our Present Time. The Quartet of Mathematics, Philosophy, Music and Poetry can constitute the way for the Refinement and Perfection of our Mouldable Minds. The Members of this Quartet Blend will influence and control each other in Mutual Harmony & Proportion and their collective effort will evolve toward Human Betterment. If a Member of this group tries to go on its own accord and proceed out of the Quartet Bond, then it would again suffer the Fate of its Erstwhile Anti Life-Relevant & Contradictory Activities Manifesting into Chaos. The Foursome in the Quartet must Monitor and Guard their Unified Course by exposing the Black Sheep which adopts the Path of Monologue in Isolation creating discord and bring back the Prodigal Miscreant under their Regime. This must be the Real Service to Mankind for preventing itself from the Blunder of Yielding to the Satanic Wobblings Again and Again causing Imbalance, Hatred and Pain in the Amicable World of Equilibrium, Compassion and Pleasure.
‘POEMUSIMATHESOPHY’ is the New Name derived from the Golden Quartet’s Members, viz., ‘Poe’try, ‘Musi’c, ‘Mathe’matics and Philo‘sophy’ i.e. 3 letters from Poetry and 4 letters from Music to represent the Musical Heptatonic System of the 7 Notes and 5 letters each from Mathematics and Philosophy to represent the Mathematical Decimal System of the 10 Numbers or the Digits. A Soul (=Spirit) has to be Poetically Inspired, Musically Matured, Philosophically Refined & Mathematically Perfected in order to Transform itself into Godhood. The Mind, the intermediary between the Soul & the Body has to Pronounce in Unison with the Spiritualistic Quest of the Soul and the Materialistic Lust of the Body but its Ultimate Preference should be in the direction of Ascending the Ladders of Liberation along with the Soul. If the Human Mind joins with the Cravings of the Body only & Corrupts itself and descend to the level below that of Animals, then it should Carve a Permanent Niche for the Body in the Doom of Materialism. Let us Celebrate the Birth of ‘POEMUSIMATHESOPHY’ Cheerfully and Flourish, Foster, Nourish & Cherish it for the sake of the Triple Pursuits of SOUL-SEARCHING, SOUL-REALISING AND SOUL-LIBERATING PENANCE in order to Achieve our Life’s Actual Purpose of Attaining Divinity by EVER ABSORBING AND EVER ABIDING IN THE EVER ECSTATIC ETERNAL BLISS OF THE BRAHMANANDHAM.
—S. Maheshkumar.
{Revised from the Original Draft Composed on 4th & 5th of February 2004}.
