Click to enlarge the above Moon Knight country credits.
See as well Slovenia in this journal.
"Los embaldosados" means the tilings .
The image referencing Robert M. Pirsig is
from "Classic Romantic," Dec. 19, 2020.
"Moon Knight" will conclude at 3 AM ET Wednesday.
Related art —
Related cinematic art — ("Tomb Raider," 2018) —
An image that some — perhaps even Uncle Walt himself —
might prefer to the above depiction of Lara Croft —
" While quantum theory has proven to be supremely successful
since its development a century ago, physicists have struggled to
unify it with gravity to create one overarching ‘theory of everything.’ "
— News release 1-May-2022 from
Foundational Ouestions Institute, FQXi
See as well the new URL "overarching.group."
From a 2017 Kate Mara film —
For a rather different vision of perfection, see Mara in "Morgan" (2016).
The pane number of interest — 15 or 14 ? —
depends on your perspective.
Related cinematic art of Oscar Isaac —
"Edward Bulwer-Lytton (infamous author of the opening line,
'It was a dark and stormy night') was a Victorian-era writer.
In 1870, he published a science fiction novel, The Power of
the Coming Race, which describes an underground race of
superhuman angel-like creatures and their mysterious energy
force, Vril, an 'all-permeating fluid' of limitless power."
— From a source linked-to in the post Vril Chick.
"Credit where credit is due" . . .
* See the previous two posts, now also tagged Play Room.
"Damning revelations" — Marie Claire yesterday
"Imagine a powerful man as a ship, like the Titanic. That ship is a huge enterprise. When it strikes an iceberg, there are a lot of people on board desperate to patch up holes — not because they believe in or even care about the ship, but because their own fates depend on the enterprise."
— Op-ed attributed to Amber Heard by The Washington Post , |
"Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:"
— Two lines from a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem
as quoted by Caleb Murdock at . . .
https://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=5356 .
From that same URL —
"And, Caleb, yes, 'sprung rhythm' has made it into dictionaries,
though even there, the association is with Hopkins."
For guess-ghosts —
"Spring is sprung, the grass is riz,
I wonder where the flowers is."
And for an able muse —
Translated by Google as . . .
The Truchet Tiles and the Diamond Puzzle and
The Art of the Simple Truchet Tile.
About the author:
Raúl Ibáñez is a professor in the Department of Mathematics
at the UPV/EHU and collaborator with the Chair of Scientific Culture.
About his school:
The University of the Basque Country
(Basque: Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, EHU ;
Spanish: Universidad del País Vasco, UPV ; UPV/EHU)
is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community.
— Wikipedia
Illustration by Nicholas Konrad / The New Yorker April 28, 2022
Some related material from Harvard —
From The New York Times on May 5, 2011 —
"… What Paris says to me is love story, awash with painters,
shots of the Seine, Champagne. Thank God I have a
can’t-miss notion to sell you. I call it ‘Midnight in Paris.’ ”
“Romantic title,” I had to admit. “Is there a script?”
“Actually, there’s nothing on paper yet, but I can spitball
the main points,” he said, slipping on his tap shoes.
“Maybe some other time,” I said, mindful of Cubbage’s
unbroken string of theatrical Hiroshimas.
— Woody Allen
The above passage is in memory of a French film director
who, like the reporter in yesterday's post Primary Colors,
reportedly died on April 21, 2022.
See also Aitchison at Hiroshima and Easter for Aitchison.
"Leslie Jamison has written an honest and important book….
All in all, vivid writing and required reading." ―Stephen King
Meanwhile, also on April 5, 2018… See posts tagged D8.
More recently, in a conspicuously un-dated new literary magazine …
See as well Freud on the Tummelplatz .
From a post of October 25, 2002 —
"A work of art has an author and yet,
when it is perfect, it has something
which is essentially anonymous about it."
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
This flashback was suggested by a quotation
in today's previous post —
"Go back to the darkest roots of civilisation
and you will find them knotted round
some sacred stone or encircling
some sacred well."
— G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy , Ch. 5 —
"The Flag of the World."
"Go back to the darkest roots of civilisation
and you will find them knotted round
some sacred stone or encircling
some sacred well."
— G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy , Ch. 5 —
"The Flag of the World."
See also . . .
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: Glasperlenspiel, Solomon Marcus — m759 @ 10:10 PM Book review by Jadran Mimica in Oceania, Vol. 74, 2003: "In his classic essay of 1955 'The Structural Study of Myth' Levi-Strauss came up with a universal formula of mythopoeic dynamics [fx(a) : fy(b) :: fx(b) : fa-1(y)] that he called canonical 'for it can represent any mythic transformation'. This formulation received its consummation in the four massive Mythologiques volumes, the last of which crystallises the fundamental dialectics of mythopoeic thought: that there is 'one myth only' and the primal ground of this 'one' is 'nothing'. The elucidation of the generative matrix of the myth-work is thus completed as is the self-totalisation of both the thinker and his object." So there. At least one mathematician has claimed that the Levi-Strauss formula makes sense. (Jack Morava, arXiv pdf, 2003.) I prefer the earlier (1943) remarks of Hermann Hesse on transformations of myth: "…in the spirit of the Glass Bead Game, everything actually was all-meaningful, that every symbol and combination of symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. Every transition from major to minor in a sonata, every transformation of a myth or a religious cult, every classical or artistic formulation was, I realized in that flashing moment, if seen with a truly meditative mind, nothing but a direct route into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth, between Yin and Yang, holiness is forever being created." |
Derrida was the final speaker on the final day. He remained a silent observer for much of the symposium. He looked on as Lacan rose to his feet with obscure questions at the end of each lecture, and as Barthes gently asked for clarification on various moot points. Eventually, however, Derrida, unused to speaking to large audiences, took to the stage, quietly shuffled his notes, and began, ‘Perhaps something has occurred in the history of the concept of structure that could be called an “event”…’ He spoke for less than half an hour. But by the time he was finished the entire structuralist project was in doubt, if not dead. An event had occurred: the birth of deconstruction.
Salmon, Peter. An Event, Perhaps (pp. 2-3). |
Salmon today at Arts & Letters Daily —
* Vide "pleasantly discursive" in this journal.
October 2, 2016, was, in the Catholic sense, the dies natalis
of a philosopher of science, Mary Hesse.
October 2 was also the day of birth, in the non-Catholic sense,
of philosopher-poet Wallace Stevens.
Cf. remarks in this journal on October 2, 2016.
See as well Morse in Log24 posts on the Go chip.
Excerpt from a long poem by Eliza Griswold —
The square array above does not contain Arfken's variant
labels for ρ1, ρ2, and ρ3, although those variant labels were
included in Arfken's 1985 square array and in Arfken's 1985
list of six anticommuting sets, copied at MathWorld as above.
The omission of variant labels prevents a revised list of the
six anticommuting sets from containing more distinct symbols
than there are matrices.
Revised list of anticommuting sets:
α1 α2 α3 ρ2 ρ3
γ1 γ2 γ3 ρ1 ρ3
δ1 δ2 δ3 ρ1 ρ2
α1 γ1 δ1 σ2 σ3
α2 γ2 δ2 σ1 σ3
α3 γ3 δ3 σ1 σ2 .
Context for the poem: Quark Rock.
Context for the physics: Dirac Matrices.
For a weblog post today on an auction item from
the collection of the late Pierre Le-Tan.
A search for information on Le-Tan reveals that his
dies natalis (in the Catholic sense) was Sept. 17, 2019.
See a poem quoted here on that date in posts tagged Quark Rock.
"Spirits rise . . . ." — Streisand
Related material —
A 1920 play by J. M. Barrie, recreated on stage and now in film.
https://blacklistdeclassified.net/2022/04/15/
%f0%9f%94%b4-script-916-helen-maghi/ —
Red: If I may offer some counsel –
“Do not go where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.”
In the spirit of that, I bring an unusual case….
This post is in honor of Thandiwe Newton,
who left a Westworld trail —
Vide Bulk Apperception.
* Cf. a post from Day 3 of 2022.
* See other posts tagged Aitchison in this journal.
For the De las Cuevas above, see …
https://www.gemmadelascuevas.com/ —
"I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics
at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) . . . ."
— and a tweet from Thursday, April 14, 2022, that indicates
an interest in philosophy as well as physics —
Related vocabulary —
Related drama —
Draft of a letter to FDR written by Leo Szilard
and signed by Albert Einstein —
For the letter as sent , see a webpage on the Manhattan Project.
This post was suggested by a New York Times obituary today that
contained the following misleading description —
"a 1939 letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
encouraging the American effort to build the atomic bomb."
There was apparently no such effort until after the letter was received.
From the 2019 post Spring Loaded —
A more recent image, from Carroll's wife Jennifer Ouellette —
For a more sophisticated approach to the 4x4x4 cube,
see a page at finitegeometry.org.
From the previous post —
Many will prefer snazzier potions —
These were available as NFTs recently . . .
See some.place. And then there is nine.place.
"It’s important, as art historian Reinhard Spieler has noted,
that after a brief, unproductive stay in Paris, circa 1907,
Kandinsky chose to paint in Munich. That’s where he formed
the Expressionist art group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) —
and where he avoided having to deal with cubism."
— David Carrier,
Images from an earlier Christmas Day, in 2005 —
"Jesus Christ, Adam. I need you to play it cool."
See as well this journal on February 10, 2010 —
A Midrash for Levy —
That was then, this is now —
Be careful what you wish for.
For the Unicorn School —
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datetime="2022-04-10T06:41:25.000Z"
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From posts tagged Unicorn Language —
Some will prefer the Dragon School . . .
of Tom Hiddleston, Emma Watson, and Humphrey Carpenter.
"National Unicorn Day" was yesterday . Today's mythical creature —
the villainous spymaster of The Eiger Sanction , Yurasis Dragon.
The previous post was in memory of one Eleanor Munro.
A different literary Munro —
And then there is Hector Hugh Munro, pen name Saki . . .
See lumber room in this journal (Nov. 30 – Dec. 3, 2016), and
later Ghost Ship tales in a post of December 22, 2016.
The author of the above title is featured in
a New York Times obituary today. Another
book by the same author, On Glory Roads,
appears in some related readings here .
Also on the above publication date —
Conrad K. Die beginnende Schizophrenie.
Stuttgart, Germany: Thieme Verlag; 1958.
Conrad K. Gestaltanalyse und Daseinsanalytik.
Nervenarzt. 1959; 30: 405–410.
"Reviewing Ms. Allen’s staging of Ibsen’s
'When We Dead Awaken'
at Stage West in 1977, Mr. Barnes wrote that
it had 'speed, conviction and perception.'"
— Richard Sandomir today reviewing the life of Rae Allen.
From the conclusion of that Ibsen play —
"Pax vobiscum."
See as well the YouTube comments below, on Allen
in the film version (1958) of "Damn Yankees" —
The above out-of-context quotation illustrates the following lesson,
from the Amazon.com page quoted in this moning's Souls at Stanford —
See as well 1949 in the April 7 post
The Usual Suspects.
"Accepting the award, Mr. Logan said, 'I have a hunch
that this is as near to immortality as I'll ever get.'"
— Mel Gussow in The New York Times, March 10, 1975
In memory of a musical that opened on this date —
April 7 — in 1949 . . .
See the same date in The Source , by James Michener (1965):
Architectural theorist Jeffrey Kipnis in 1991, recalled here in 2015 —
For the source of the illustration, see Hexagram 14.
For the former, see Warburg in this journal.
For the latter, see beadgame.space on the Web.
"Godard, in the final analysis, expands the Warburgian programme
of iconology into that of a cinematographic iconology of the interstice."
— The author of the essay quoted in the previous post.
Related material: Blue Guitar.
From a post of April 1 —
A related post by Terry Tao on September 14, 2007 —
The comments on Tao's post contain a reference to Polya's classic
Induction and Analogy in Mathematics . (See pp. 15-17.) Polya notes
on page 15 —
"Generalization, Specialization, and Analogy often concur
in solving mathematical problems. Let us take as an example
the proof of the best known theorem of elementary geometry,
the theorem of Pythagoras. The proof that we shall discuss is
not new; it is due to Euclid himself (Euclid VI, 31)."
Compare and contrast with the Glass-Bead essay in the previous post —
The Caramello essay is backed up by some impressive technical work:
Some may prefer a different sort of dream . . .
Background for the Stimmung dream, from May 2019 —
For a different type of lifeworld, see May 2019 in this journal.
… From the online New York Times this evening.
* Vide that phrase in this journal.
See also the previous post and . . .
On Sept. 12, 2001, The Washington Post published
an opinion essay by General Boyd in which he wrote,
“While we may feel at the moment as though we are
in a trance, we are, in fact, awakening.”
— Katharine Q. Seelye in the general's obituary.
Update of 11:30 AM ET April 1, 2022 — A simpler version:
The above picture may be used to to introduce the concept of a "shape constant"
in similar figures — like the shape constant pi in a circle or the square root of 2
in a square. In each of the three similar figures at right above, the ratio of the
triangular area to the area of the attached square is a shape constant …
the same, because of their similarity, for each of the three shapes. Since the
areas of the top two triangles at right sum to that of the enclosed triangle at left,
their attached square areas sum to the area of the bottom square, Q.E.D.
The source of the proof —
There were no Log24 posts on March 17 or March 19.
From a March 18 post, a flashback to February —
"In The Girl Before, the house is almost a shapeshifter as it fits
the needs of the story. Sometimes it feels like an art gallery,
with its inhabitants on display. It's a smart home (of course it is),
and its automated locks and lights and creepily intuitive A.I.
give it the feel of a high-tech prison. Sometimes it's a mausoleum
for Jane, who's dealing with the recent pain of a miscarriage.
Sometimes it's a fortress for Emma, who's dealing with the recent
trauma of a home invasion." — Joe Reid at Primetimer.com.
Click to enlarge.
Related reading — George Steiner's Fields of Force , on chess in Iceland, and . . .
The New Yorker , article by Sam Knight dated March 28, 2022 —
They went to Björk’s house. She cooked salmon.
She had seen “The Witch” and introduced Eggers
to Sjón, who had written a novel about seventeenth-
century witchcraft in Iceland. When he got home,
Eggers read Sjón’s books. “I was, like, this guy’s
a fucking magician,” Eggers said. “He sees all time,
in time, out of time.”
See box-space.design.
Related cinematic remarks —
From Third Text , 2013, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 774–785 — "Genealogy of the Image in Histoire(s) du Cinéma : Godard, Warburg and the Iconology of the Interstice" * * * * P. 777 — Godard conceives of the image only in the plural, in the intermediate space between two images, be it a prolonged one (in Histoire(s) there are frequent instances of black screens) or a non-existent one (superimposition, co-presence of two images on screen). He comments: ‘[For me] it’s always two, begin by showing two images rather than one, that’s what I call image, the one made up of two’ [18] and elsewhere, ‘I perceived . . . cinema is that which is between things, not things [themselves] but between one and another.’ [19] 18. Jean-Luc Godard and Youssef Ishaghpour, "Archéologie du cinéma et mémoire du siècle," Farrago ,Tours, 2000, p. 27. The title of this work is reflective of the Godardian agenda that permeates Histoire(s) . 19. Jean-Luc Godard, "Introduction à une véritable histoire du cinéma," Albatros , Paris,1980, p. 145 |
See as well Warburg in this journal.
The New York Times reports that the architectural theorist
died at 85 on March 17. In his memory . . .
Christopher Alexander in this journal.
"Design is how it works ." — Steve Jobs. See interality.org.
Name Tag | .Space | .Group | .Art |
---|---|---|---|
Box4 |
2×2 square representing the four-point finite affine geometry AG(2,2). (Box4.space) |
S4 = AGL(2,2) (Box4.group) |
(Box4.art) |
Box6 |
3×2 (3-row, 2-column) rectangular array representing the elements of an arbitrary 6-set. |
S6 | |
Box8 | 2x2x2 cube or 4×2 (4-row, 2-column) array. | S8 or A8 or AGL(3,2) of order 1344, or GL(3,2) of order 168 | |
Box9 | The 3×3 square. | AGL(2,3) or GL(2,3) | |
Box12 | The 12 edges of a cube, or a 4×3 array for picturing the actions of the Mathieu group M12. | Symmetries of the cube or elements of the group M12 | |
Box13 | The 13 symmetry axes of the cube. | Symmetries of the cube. | |
Box15 |
The 15 points of PG(3,2), the projective geometry of 3 dimensions over the 2-element Galois field. |
Collineations of PG(3,2) | |
Box16 |
The 16 points of AG(4,2), the affine geometry of 4 dimensions over the 2-element Galois field. |
AGL(4,2), the affine group of |
|
Box20 | The configuration representing Desargues's theorem. | ||
Box21 | The 21 points and 21 lines of PG(2,4). | ||
Box24 | The 24 points of the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24). | ||
Box25 | A 5×5 array representing PG(2,5). | ||
Box27 |
The 3-dimensional Galois affine space over the 3-element Galois field GF(3). |
||
Box28 | The 28 bitangents of a plane quartic curve. | ||
Box32 |
Pair of 4×4 arrays representing orthogonal Latin squares. |
Used to represent elements of AGL(4,2) |
|
Box35 |
A 5-row-by-7-column array representing the 35 lines in the finite projective space PG(3,2) |
PGL(3,2), order 20,160 | |
Box36 | Eurler's 36-officer problem. | ||
Box45 | The 45 Pascal points of the Pascal configuration. | ||
Box48 | The 48 elements of the group AGL(2,3). | AGL(2,3). | |
Box56 |
The 56 three-sets within an 8-set or |
||
Box60 | The Klein configuration. | ||
Box64 | Solomon's cube. |
— Steven H. Cullinane, March 26-27, 2022
From the "Mathematics and Narrative" link in the previous post —
An image reposted here on March 12, 2022, the reported date of death
for Vera Diamantova —
Helen Mirren with plastic Gankyil .
"Solomon Golomb’s classic book Shift Register Sequences,
published in 1967—based on his work in the 1950s—
went out of print long ago. But its content lives on. . . ."
For part of that content, see Stencils .
A :Log24 post from the date of Golomb's death —
See as well other posts on Mathematics and Narrative.
Images reposted here on March 9 . . .
the reported date of death for film director John Korty —
The quotation is from a professor of mathematics at Spelman College.
"… Wade’s entire life is built around the squid attack. In the episode’s opening, we see that 34 years ago, young Wade was at a carnival in Hoboken, New Jersey, proselytizing as a Jehovah’s Witness when the squid emitted a psychic blast that killed three million people in the New York area. Just before the attack, a girl led him into a house of mirrors, feigning interest in hooking up with him in order to steal his clothes, leaving him naked and humiliated in the fairground attraction. But the cruel prank also saved his life, as mirrors can apparently repel the squid's psychic blast." |
Related literary remarks —
"It may have been by chance, and it may have had the side effect of being easy to read, but this way of putting a novel together offered a bridge between the miniaturist in Doerr and the seeker of world-spanning connections. He could focus on the details of every piece in the narrative, but there was pleasure, too, in placing them against each other. Sometimes he would lay out all these micro chapters on the floor so he could see them and discover the resonances between characters across space and time. 'That’s the real joy,' Doerr said, 'the visceral pleasure that comes from taking these stories, these lives, and intersecting them, braiding them.'" — "A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 20, 2021, Section C, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Bringing His Readers To Higher Ground." |
Nautilus , March 10, 2022 —
Earlier . . . From "Deep Learning for Jews," July 17, 2018 —
* See Watchmen in this journal.
Finesse —
Sunday December 10, 2006 m759 @ 9:00 PM
“Function defined form, expressed in a pure geometry
– J. G. Ballard on Modernism
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance –
— Daniel J. Boorstin, |
Geometrie —
The previous post suggests a review of
a Log24 post from August 22, 2020 —
From a web page —
From YouTube, for the Church of Synchronology —
For some context, see Holocron in this journal.
"Weight limit 10 tons… Except local deliveries" —
Conclusion: the book is a mine of information, but
you sure have to dig for it. — Paul R. Halmos,
review of Topological Dynamics , November 1955
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