[mindcrime]

Something I stumbled across in the last day or two brought Ulf Grenander[1] and his idea of "Pattern Theory" to my attention, and I've been going down a bit of a rabbit-hole the last couple of days digging into this. Discovering David Mumford's work was especially interesting given that he is, as you say, a Field Medalist. Not to mention his also being a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of a National Medal of Science. Not to go all "appeal to authority", but if he thinks this is valuable territory, then it's probably worth a little bit of my time exploring it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf_Grenander

[steppi]

Would you consider doing a write-up somewhere after getting further into your investigation of pattern theory? I'd certainly be interested in a distillation of any insights you find and I imagine others would too.

[mindcrime]

Sure, but no promises on how long that might take. :-)