Two Examples

To illustrate the notion of unified wisdom, two examples from my writings come to mind.

A "simple" example is "The Fixed Hebrew Calendar". It surely is wisdom, based on the sciences. It contains a Chiddush, which belongs to the sciences, but serves a purpose beyond that. The Chiddush serves to fix the calendar in a simple way, and therefore the time of the Chagim. Two arts come together, the wisdom of mathematics and programming, and the system coming from Chazal, who would probably have seen it as wisdom coming from above.

A more elaborate example is what is known as "Brocard's Problem", a problem in mathematics, which is wisdom from below, together with the "coinciding" numbers in נֵ"ר תָּמִי"ד, which must be wisdom from above. Who wants to pursue the matter is referred to "Some Edits" and the blog posts leading to it, to "The Mathematics of PE" and related posts, as well as to "An Observation", and subsequent blog posts, culminating in "What Shall It Be?" and "The Middle Value", a little later. In other words, who wants to pursue the matter is invited to the blogs מדר"ל, and טצ"ץ++ and טצ"ץ++.

Not only could nobody but Gauss have produced it, but it would never have occurred to anyone but Gauss that such a formula was possible. ((Albert Einstein, referring to Gauss's work on the Hebrew Calendar) )

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