Trinities; Celebrating the Mathematic Trinity

Father, son and the holy ghost or body, mind and spirit….  many trinities.  Hmm, circle, square and triangle.  How about a trinity of math?

Pi, phi and the exponent e?  We know the Great Pyramid of Giza enshrines Pi and phi but how about e?  And in about August 2002 Rick Howard finds e, the math of compound interest in the GP, HERE.

Here is the math I've co-opted from readings over time:

Surely Mr. Gann would not miss the opportunity to celebrate the the math trinity in "The Tunnel Thru the Air."  Where to look, where to look.  I find only "Phi" in the acrostics and telestics on page 120.  I guess it would be hard to give us a distinct, recognizable word "pi" or "e" in the acrostics and telestics.

Ah, but he did.  He gave us 83 instances of words made up of of 3, 4, 5 and 6 e's in the telestics.  Interesting and notable 83.  Here's a frequency distribution:

And, of course, you remember the very first telestic word that is formed by the very first narrative paragraph of the book in the Foreword…the vastly improbable 6 consecutive e's:

So how about Pi.  Why I count exactly 19 instances of Pi in acrostics and telestics.  A very noteworthy number but not quite as satisfying as Phi and e in the acrostics and telestics.

How about and 'in your face' signal for those not inclined to study acrostics and telestics (I feel lonely as I appear to be the only person to have studied the truly hidden code in TTTTA)?  How about the page numbers represent Phi, pi and e?  Pages 161, 314 and 272?  Duh.

Page 161 is Robert's 21st birthday bannered with the subtitle "Robert Gordon's 21st Birthday."

Page 314 is the nations 155th birthday or July 4, 1931, in dire times.

Page 272….well, you can guess its a birthday can't you.  Why its Robert's birthday again, but there is a great party where Edna Stanton and Walter Kennelworth's engagement is celebrated.

"…a threefold chord is not easily broken."

I believe Mr. Gann duly celebrated the mathematic trinity for sure.  I believe the tripartite workings of the mathematic trinity will solve the mathematic paradox of Robert Gordon's 7 days.

[Some 5 hours after I posted Mr. Gann's my conception of the trinity of mathematics (below), it occurs to me that, not only did Mr. Gann commemorate Pi, Phi and e with three birthdays in TTTTA on the pages of those same numbers, but I discovered them on another birthday…the birthday of Christ.  I didn't ponder them and discover the occurrence.  I woke up this morning with the thought and then found the color.  I knew it was there in TTTTA.  Either I'm beginning to anticipate the devices Mr. Gann would use to emphasize an important concept or something else is going on.  Surely, its the former.]

Have a blessed and wonderful Easter Sunday,

Jim Ross