Mathematics and Narrative,
Continued:
The Happy Ending Problem
From Google News this afternoon--
See also the previous entry.
VALE
George and Esther Szekeres
From the weblog of
David Michael Brown, Jr.:
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:30:40 -0400
From: Alf van der Poorten AM Subject: Vale George Sz…
Diamond Theorem Revisited
This evening I wrote a revised version of my 1979 "diamond theorem"
abstract.
Analogical
Train of Thought
Part I: The 24-Cell From S. H. Cullinane, Visualizing GL(2,p), March
26, 1985-- Visualizing thebinary tetrahedral group (the 24-cell):
Another representation of
the 24-cell…
High Concept, continued:
"In the beginning there was nothing. And God
said, 'Let there be light!' And there was still nothing, but now you
could see it."
-- Jim Holt, Big-Bang Theology, Slate's "High…
1:06:55
PM
"I had an epiphany."
-- Apostolos Doxiadis Related material:
Log24 March 11:
Lucas Promises a
Darker Star Wars
High Concept*
"Concept (scholastics' verbum mentis)-- theological analogy of Son's
procession as Verbum Patris, 111-12" -- index to Joyce and Aquinas, by
William T. Noon, S.J.,
Yale University Press 1957,
…
Quarter to Three
You'd never know it,
But buddy, I'm a kind of poet...
The Hole
Part I: Mathematics and Narrative
Apostolos Doxiadis
on last month's conference on "mathematics and narrative"--
Doxiadis is
describing how talks by two noted mathematicians were related to …
Truth vs. Bullshit
Background:For an essay on the above topic
from this week's New Yorker,
click on the box below. Representing truth:Rebecca
GoldsteinRepresenting bullshit:Apostolos Doxia…
Mathematics and Narrative
continued"There is a pleasantly discursive treatment of Pontius
Pilate's unanswered question 'What is truth?'"--
H. S. M. Coxeter, 1987, introduction to Richard J. Trudeau's remarks on
the "S…
Final Arrangements,
continued:
"Mr. Deutsch, a jaunty, elegant figure, was known as Ardie to his
friends. Those friends included the composer Frank Loesser, who was his
roommate for a time, and Frank Sinatr…
Sermon for
World Youth Day (Cologne, Aug. 16-21, 2005)
"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it
not." -- The Gospel according to St. John, Chapter 1, Verse 5 Part I:
The L…
At Cologne "The Game was at first nothing
more than a witty
method for developing memory and ingenuity among students and
musicians. The inventor, Bastian Perrot of Calw... found that the
pupils at
the…
Narrative and Latin Squares
From The Independent, 15 August 2005:
"Millions of people now enjoy Sudoku puzzles. Forget the
pseudo-Japanese
baloney: sudoku grids are a version of the Latin Square created by the
gr…
Kaleidoscope, continued:
Austere Geometry
From Noel Gray, The Kaleidoscope: Shake, Rattle, and Roll:
"... what we will be considering is how the ongoing production of
meaning
can generate a tremor in the stabil…
Kaleidoscope, continued:
In Derrida's Defense
The previous entry quoted an attack on Jacques Derrida for ignoring the
"kaleidoscope" metaphor of Claude Levi-Strauss. Here is a quote
by Derrida himself:
"The …
Kaleidoscope, continuedFrom Clifford Geertz,
The Cerebral Savage: "Savage
logic works like a kaleidoscope whose chips can fall into a variety of
patterns while remaining unchanged in quantity, form, or color. The
numb…
Kaleidoscope
A new web page simplifies the Diamond 16 Puzzle and relates the
resulting "kaleidoscope" to Hesse's Bead Game.
Religious Symbolism
at Harvard
Photo adapted from
today's online New York Times:
For details, see
The Da Vinci Code
and Symbology at Harvard.
Presbyterian Justice
News from today's New York Times:
The Rev. Dr. Theodore Alexander Gill Sr., a Presbyterian theologian, a
philosophy
teacher, and an influential provost emeritus of John Jay College of
Crimin…
The Fugue "True joy is a profound
remembering, and true grief is the same. Thus it was, when the dust
storm that had snatched
Cal up finally died, and he opened his eyes to see the Fugue spread out
befor…
For André Weil on
the seventh anniversary
of his death: A Miniature
Rosetta Stone
In a 1940 letter to his sister Simone, André Weil discussed a
sort of "Rosetta stone," or trilingual text of three analog…
Music for the
Feast of the
Transfiguration
"Jesus hits like
an atom bomb." Click on picture
for a sound clip.
For Sir Alec
From Elegance:
"Philosophers ponder the
idea of identity: what it is to give something a name on Monday and
have it respond to that name on Friday...." -- Bernard Holland, page
C12, The New Yo…
Abel's Birthday
Click on picture
for details.
Visible Mathematics, continued
Today's mathematical birthdays:
Saunders Mac Lane, John Venn,
and Sir William Rowan Hamilton.
It is well known that the quaternion group
is a subgroup of GL(2,3), the gen…
Epiphany Term
"In Epiphany Term, 1942, C.S. Lewis delivered the Riddell
Memorial Lectures... in.... the University of Durham.... He
delivered three lectures
entitled 'Men without Chests,' 'The Way,' and 'The
Ab…
Austere
Pictured:
Modal Theology Saudi King Fahd Buried in Unmarked Grave By SALAH
NASRAWI
The Associated Press Tuesday, August 2, 2005 9:50 AM EDT …
Today's birthday:
Peter O'Toole
"What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the
desert?"
"It's clean."
Visible Mathematics,
continued --
From May 18:
Lindbergh's …
Final Arrangements, continued
Kismet
From yesterday's Log24 --
Clive Barker's Weaveworld:
Another of the angel's attributes rose from memory
now, and with it a sudden shock of comprehension. Uriel had been
th…
50 Years Agoon this date, poet
Wallace Stevens died.
Memorial: at the
Wallace Stevens Concordance,enter center.
Final Arrangements, continued
Ready for Her Closeup
From today's New York Times:
"BERLIN, July 31 - Willem F. Duisenberg, the blunt-spoken Dutch central
banker who oversaw the introduction of the euro…
Visible Mathematics "Earlier,
there had been mapping projects in Saudi Arabia's Rub' al-Khali, the
Empty Quarter in the south and west of the country.... '"Empty" is a
misnomer... the Rub' al-Khali cont…
In memory of filmmaker
Kayo Hatta
From Google News,
8:15 AM EDT today:
A brief film: