17316 - Digital hours

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias

The hour hands had not moved, but the hours were thereon digital.
It was yet another form of mosaic where the meaning did not appear on the pixels, if someone didn’t know the layout of the structure.
It was not merely a confrontation between monochrome and polychrome, but a complementary polysemy.
Over this mental scheme, the multi cyclicity of Time was activated.
Because even the colours were elements of a coat of arms.
Even though most didn’t know how to read them, since they didn’t comprehend heraldry.
Furthermore, the digits were just the beginning.
In actual fact it was the substantial intermediate between letters and numbers.
That’s how the theory was born .
And that’s how also the digital encyclopedia of integer sequences had been created .
That’s what he had in mind when he grabbed the notebook again in front of the chart.
Mathematicians were not just names on theorems.
They too had within them particles of history, with a future rationality .
Even if their work was sporadic, it was sufficient in order to support continuity.
This was the most important.
Because in principle, many things which occurred on a daily basis had no actual future.
Whereas, mathematicians were by nature creating intertemporal mental schemes while solving the paradox of historicity which produces future.
The sporadic was functioning collectively.
Following the conception of Galois which explained the feat of Abel.
Because the exceedance left a legacy for the ones to follow, who understood the works after some decades. No limits.