PATTERNMATHSTRATEGYPROSTHESISLIFE PATTERNS AND PROSTHESES DERIVABLE FROM MATH PATTERNS AND STRATEGIES

LET THE PATTERNS BECOME LIKE CONSTRUCTOR'S BLUEPRINTS OR THE "BUTTRICK" PATTERNS FROM WHICH MY DRESSMAKER MOTHER CUT OUT DRESSES! This can fulfill a GREAT HUMAN NEED.

French anthropologist Claude Levy-Strauss said (in The Raw and The Cooked) that PEOPLE EVERYWHERE seem to DESIRE THEIR LIVES TO MAKE SENSE -- TO FORM "PATTERNS".

Levy-Strauss noted that an Aborigine hunter, tracking an animal across the Kalahari Desert, might relax in a rock's midday shade by embroidering roses on a hooped cloth, a pretty pattern in his spartan life.

Inspired by this, I wrote a quatrain:

			Prayer of a Feckless Fool
			Before I go to that great Playground,
			To spend that last Recess,
			Lord! Make my Life a Pattern --
			Instead of this mishamy! mashamy! MESS!
MATHEMATICIANS ARE THE STEWARDS OF STRATEGY! since MATH IS FULL OF ALGORITHMS (programs which slowly by surely achieve results) which have POTENTIAL.

Gotthold Frege (1848-1925) distinguished the USE and MENTION ROLES OF WORDS. To say, "Oz is a beautiful city to visit" is to place "Oz" in USE ROLE; to say, "'Oz' is a two-letter monosyllable", places "Oz" in the MENTION ROLE (usually denoted by special quotes, as above).

AN ALGORITHM IN THE USE ROLE IS TACTICAL; IN THE MENTION ROLE, STRATEGIC. These TACTICS and STRATEGIES can be adapted for dealing with daily Life problems. Hence, from ALGORITHMS flow PROSTHETICS.

And we need prostheses since the HUMAN is one of the most physically "handicapped" of all animals. (Note: I dislike the word "handicapped", since originally it denoted a beggar handy with a cap for alms.)

Many English-writing physicists have imported the word "Ansatz" from the German language to mean, roughly, "Let's assume that things are like this, or work like this -- to see what this buys us". (For example, "Let's assume that 'what's out there' can be described as 3-D-in-space and 1-D-in-time -- and see what this buys us.") I extend "ansatz" to all science.

(Think of a strategy as a package; an ansatz, as a perspective.)

Each of the strategies (or ansatzes) below formulates a hypothesis, namely, that WHAT IS CONSIDERED (BY THE GIVEN STRATEGY OR ANSATZ) FITS A PATTERN (CONFORMING WITH THAT STRATEGY or ANSATZ). Furthermore, that is a WIN-WIN HYPOTHESIS.

For, if the hypothesis is confirmed, you WIN. If not confirmed, the STRATEGY (ANSATZ) IS TAILORED SO THAT FAILURE REVEALS SOMETHING YOU NEVER KNEW OR THOUGHT OF INVESTIGATING. So, you WIN, after all!

EVERY STRATEGY OR ANSATZ IS POTENTIALLY A PROSTHETIC, AND CANBE SO USED BY ANY KNOWING INDIVIDUAL.

LEARN THESES AND PRACTICE USING THEM, AND SPREAD THE WORD TO HELP OTHERS!