Contemplating the end of the world, math, mystery and other things

Cross-check: Contemplating the end of the world, math, mystery and other things: "I suffer from eschatological obsession. That is, I spend lots of time brooding about ends. So the cover of the September Scientific American—which reads simply 'the end.'—made me all shivery, like when I hear the spooky sitar opening of The Doors' apocalyptic rock poem 'The End.' (I'm never more Freudian than when I hear Morrison's Oedipal yowl.)"