Subject and Predicates
"A Chu space is a set X of subjects
and a set A of predicates on those subjects. These stand in a
symbiotic relationship in which the nature of each is determined by the
other. Each subject…
Just Say Non
"French opposition to the draft European constitution
is being undermined by an onslaught of state-funded propaganda 'worthy
of Fidel Castro,' according to France's most eurosceptic leader of the
Right…
Immoveable Feast Today is a holiday of the
Roman Catholic Church: the
feast of St. Germain, Bishop of Paris. St. Germain is now known for the
neighborhood that bears his name, home to what is said to be the oldest
churc…
Midnight in the Garden,
continued:
Birth and Death
Today's birthdays:
Kylie Minogue and John Fogerty.
Get well soon, Bad Moon.
And in memory of Eddie Albert,
a talented actor who died
on Thursday,…
Drama of the Diagonal, Part Deux Wednesday's
entry The Turning
discussed a work by Roger Cooke. Cooke presents a "fanciful story
(based on Plato's dialogue Meno)."The History of Mathematics is the
title of the Cooke bo…
Drama of the Diagonal
"The beautiful in mathematics
resides in contradiction.
Incommensurability, logoi alogoi, was
the first splendor in mathematics."
-- Simone Weil, Oeuvres Choisies,
éd. Quarto
, Gall…
The Changing
The previous entry dealt with a transformation
of the diamond figure
from Plato's Meno
into a visual proof of the Pythagorean theorem:
Here is a transformation of Plato's diamond
into…
The Turning
Readers who have an Amazon.com account may view book pages relevant to
the previous entry. See page 77
of The Way We Think, by Fauconnier and Turner (Amazon search term =
Meno). This page
discusses bot…
Midnight in the Garden
continued
"Poetry is a satisfying of
the desire for resemblance.... If resemblance is described as a partial
similarity between
two dissimilar things, it complements and rei…
Final Arrangements, continued:
Two Poles
From today's New York Times:
From erraticimpact.com on Paul Ricoeur:
"Ricoeur reserves his greatest admiration for
the narratologist Algird…
Elementary Art
Piero Dorazio, 1982 From the J. Paul Getty Trust:
"I've recently had it brought to my attention that the current accepted
primary colors are magenta, cyan, and yellow. I teach elemen…
Final Arrangements continued: Elements: PIERO
DORAZIO (1927 - 2005)
Aquatint, 1982 Plate 9.5 x 9 cm | Sheet 24 x 16 cm 99 copies signed and
numbered from 1/99 to 99/99, 15 from I/XV to XV/XV Copy 11/99…
The Diamond in the Labyrinth
From the labyrinth of Solitude: An Invariant Feast Columbia News
obituary of Robert D. Cumming Solitude(Phenomenology and
Deconstruction, Vol 4
by Robert Denoon Cumming)O…
The Shining
of Friday the 13th
From Margalit Fox in today's New York Times:
"Eddie Barclay, who for three decades after World War II was arguably
the most powerful music mogul in Europe and inarguably the most
…
Icarus at Boardwalk
"As in Monopoly, the fortunes of
the Boardwalk depend on the roll of
the dice. It's the final stop on the
game board, the crown
jewel...."
-- Eileen Smith, Sept. 6, 2004
A link from Lo…
History As She Is Writ
"Finally, there is the matter of players
changing history as she is writ." -- "Historical Fantasy Campaigns
for Role Playing Simulations,"
published in Phantasmagoria,
Murdoch Alternative …
Terminator
From a March 10, 2004, entry: "Language was no more than a collection
of meaningless conventional signs, and life could absurdly end at any
moment. [Mallarmé] became …
The Shining of Apollo
"Plato's most significant passage may be found in Phaedrus
265b: 'And we made four divisions of the divine madness, ascribing them
to four gods, saying that prophecy was inspired by Apollo, the m…
Shining Through
"Schon in der Antike gab es zwei Definitionen der
Schönheit, die in einem gewissen Gegensatz zueinander standen....
Die
eine bezeichnet die Schönheit als die richtige
Übereinstimmung der
Teile mitei…
On Beauty
"Beauty is
the proper conformity of the parts to one another and to the whole." --
Werner Heisenberg,
"Die Bedeutung des Schönen in der exakten Naturwissenschaft,"
address delivered …
Lindbergh's Eden
"The Garden of Eden is behind us
and there is no road back to innocence;
we can only go forward."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Earth Shine, p. xii
The Nine
"Nine is a very powerful Nordic number." -- Katherine Neville, author
of The Eight, in The Magic Circle
"To live is to defend a form." ("Leben, das heisst eine Form
verteidigen")
-- attributed …
Art at Princeton
From Princeton University Press,
A. W. Mellon Lectures in the
Bollingen Series:
The Bollingen Crossor "Gnostic wheel"
of Princeton U. Press
Paths to the Absolute:
Mondrian, Malevich,…
Powers,
continued
Today's New York Times:
"Horton Marlais Davies, Putnam professor emeritus of religion at
Princeton and an author of many books about church history, died on
Wednesday at his home in Princeton…
Powers
From today's New York Times --
Francesco Marchisano, made a cardinal
on October 21, 2003:
"All the saints have powers."
Tonight at 8 PM ET on Fox: X-Men.
Goodbye Girl From a goodbye letter by a girl
named Lucero in Cuernavaca
in the early 1960's: "Si me de veras quieres,deja me en paz." (See
Shining Forth.) Today's birthdays -- Natasha Richardson, Martha Qui…
De Arco
... y eres tú y soy yo
y es un caminarte en círculo
dar a tus hechos dimensión de arcoy a solas con tu impulso
decirte la palabra.
-- Homero Aridjis
For Lucero:
Establi…
Art History
Reuters - "Joe Grant, a legendary Disney
artist who designed the Queen/Witch in 'Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs,' died of a heart attack while doing what he loved most,
drawing, the Walt Disney Co. s…
Europe Marks Nazis' Surrender
-- Boston Globe on events ofSunday, May 8, 2005 "After all, tomorrow is
another day."
-- Gone with the Wind derStandard.at 15 April 2005 Adolf Holl
w…
Today's Sermon:
"Holl, Adolf" pneumatology.
Geometry and Theology
See C. S. Lewis on this topic (pdf) and Mark L. Olson on C. S. Lewis
and Greg Egan, the science fiction writer mentioned in a Friday entry.
Mark Olson's article …
Fugues
"To improvise an eight-part fugue
is really beyond human capability."
-- Douglas R. Hofstadter,
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Order of a projective automorphism group:
168
"There are possibilities…
Involved
Trinity symbol(See Sequel.)
Trinity symbol
by Greg Egan
(via John Baez)
Involved:
"Difficult to understand because of intricacy: byzantine, complex,
complicated, convoluted, daedal,…
Apocalypse Wow
continued
From the West Wing time slot:
Revelations Episode 4
(first airing: 9 PM ET Wednesday,
May 4, 2005)
"It's ... extremely weird how the previously-on-Revelations announcer
do…
Crystalline
"In Francis Ford Coppola's film, Col. Kurtz tells how after his medics
inoculated a small village, the Reds chopped off every child's left
arm. 'My God, the geniu…
The Fano Plane Revisualized:or, The Eightfold
Cube Here is the usual
model of the seven points and seven lines (including the circle) of the
smallest finite projective plane (the Fano plane): Every permutation …
A Dance Results
Roger Kimball on Rosalind Krauss's
The Optical Unconscious:
"Professor Krauss even uses many of the same decorations with which
she festooned earlier volumes. Bataille’s photograph of a bi…
LogosHarvard's Barry Mazur onone mathematical
style:"It’s the barest,
most Beckett-like vocabularythat incorporates the theory and nothing
else."Samuel Beckett, Quad (1981):A Jungian on this six-lin…