ABSTRACT
Dear Ghost, we are now living in a civilization that is far more mathematized than when you held sway in the White House. It was said that if you wanted to see the monument to the memory of Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the mathematician and architect of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, just look around. (Si monumentum quaeris, circumspice!) As a mathematician, Wren was noted for his work on the rectification of the cycloid and on the one-sheeted hyper boloid. Mathematics was certainly implicit in architecture from the earliest days, and the theories of such architects as Palladio made a great impression on you when you had your architectural hat on.
