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A Myriad Mind

Gokul B Alex
Mirovia
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2 min readJan 21, 2025
Photo by Alex Shuper on Unsplash

His prismatic eyes pointed to a painful end of journey. His words were flickering with the ink. His words were marching with the veneer of thoughts. He could not sense their pace and precision. He was sure it was his penultimate letter. Yet he was beaming with glow. His swollen legs were craving for next summer. However his mind was feeling all the force of myriad moorings. This winter had cast its worst spell on his skin.

He counted the wounded worms of wrinkles on his face. He tried to rise up from the floor. He was sure it was not his dream. Otherwise, it would have been a high rise building with lean edges and limited light. He had seen a plenty of them in his dreams. Incomplete constructions with varieties of patterns. Patterns of numbers, angles, waves, lines, graphs and gazes.

He was Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor, the man who formalised the formidable pathways of infinity. He is considered as the proponent of Set Theory in its pure form. He defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real numbers are more numerous than the natural numbers. He lived through the rising tides of enlightenment and falling fury of world war. Vanities of society and vagaries of war consumed the creative contours of this pioneer. A humble tribute to this legend.

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Gokul B Alex
Gokul B Alex

Written by Gokul B Alex

Poetic Past. Digital Present. Ephemeral Future.

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