Mathematical fixed points, scale invariance, and poetry
I know a tiny bit of mathematics and even less of poetry, but I recognise fixpoints and scale invariance when I read them:
What is Good? What is Evil?:
“A point A point
and on it you find balance and exist
and beyond it turmoil and darkness
and before it the roar of angels
A point A point
and on it you can progress infinitely
otherwise, nothing else exists any more”
And the Scales which, stretching my arms,
seemed to balance light and instinct, were
THIS WORLD
this small world the great!
“Axion Esti”
Odysseus Elytis
O. ElytisB. MandelbrotL. E. Brouwer
Author: Nikolaos Laoutaris
I am a research professor at IMDEA Networks Institute in Madrid and director of its Data Transparency Group. Prior to that I was director of data science at Eurecat and chief scientist of the Data Transparency Lab which I co-founded in 2014 during my 10 year tenure as a researcher and senior researcher of Telefonica Research in Barcelona. Before Telefonica, I was a postdoc fellow at Harvard University and Marie Curie postdoc fellow at Boston University. I got my PhD in computer science from the University of Athens in 2004. My interests include: privacy/transparency/data protection, economics of networks and information, intelligent transportation, distributed systems, protocols, and network measurements.
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