… de la Iglesia
See Jan. 16-18, 2008, on poetry in Spanish
and the death of chess champion Bobby Fischer.
Note also yesterday evening's post and the date
Jan. 18, 2008, in the following Google search sidebar:
The film of The Oxford Murders was first released on Jan. 18,
2008, in Spain. Its premiere was in Madrid on the preceding day,
which was also the day of Bobby Fischer's death.
Steen reportedly died on Sunday, June 21, 2015.
This was the day of the most recent post in
the "High White Noon" series.
(As opposed to the previous post.)
Today is the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.
A reading from a parish named for them,
dated September 20, 2014 —
See also this journal on the above date — Sept. 20, 2014.
1985 — Church window in "Broken Wings" music video —
For Kristen Wiig, whose performances
give a new meaning to the phrase "flying fuck."
2015 — NASA video of June 28 Falcon 9 launch —
The title is that of a classic 1968 New Yorker essay
by George Steiner. See previous posts on this topic.
"It is as if one were to condense
all trends of present day mathematics
onto a single finite structure…."
— Gian-Carlo Rota, foreword to
A Source Book in Matroid Theory ,
Joseph P.S. Kung, Birkhäuser, 1986
"There is such a thing as a matroid."
— Saying adapted from a novel by Madeleine L'Engle
Related remarks from Mathematics Magazine in 2009 —
See also the eightfold cube —
.
For TD Arena …
See also Lincoln Alexander and posts in
this journal just before and on the date of
Alexander's death — Oct. 19, 2012.
* For the title, see Spielfeld posts.
Do you know where your watch is?
From a post of May 13, 2015 —
From the recent film "Interstellar" —
In keeping with the resurrection themes of the
previous post and of "Plan 9 from Outer Space,"
here is a link to the soundtrack of "Field of Dreams."
Related material:
A post of March 11, 2014, on
truth, cornfields, and Rebecca Goldstein —
Dark Fields of the Republic.
R.I.P., James Horner.
Rebecca Goldstein, the author mentioned in
the previous two posts, spoke at Santa Fe Institute
on Easter Monday, April 9, 2012.
This journal on that date:
The Santa Fe Institute logo, together with the previous post,
suggests a review of Whirligig and Quaternion for Goldstein.
The previous post's link to The Lindbergh Manifesto
and Thursday's post on Basel-born artist Wolf Barth
suggest the following —
See as well a June 14 New York Times
piece on Art Basel.
The logo of the University of Basel …
… suggests a review of The Holy Field —
.
There is such a thing as geometry.*
* Proposition adapted from A Wrinkle in Time , by Madeleine L'Engle.
The star of the new film "Chappie" is on tour.
(Continued from Feb. 3, 2015)
The above artist Wolf Barth is not the same person
as the mathematician Wolf Barth quoted in the
previous post. For further background on the artist, see
an article in Neue Zürcher Zeitung from Nov. 15, 2013.
The title of the previous post, "Slow Art," is a phrase
of the late art critic Robert Hughes.
Example from mathematics:
Click the Barth passage to see it with its surrounding text.
Related material:
Slowness is sometimes in the eye of the beholder.
See this journal on Slow Art Day 2015.
Related material: Epistemic States in this journal.
See that phrase in this journal.
See also last night's post.
The Greek letter Ω is customarily used to
denote a set that is acted upon by a group.
If the group is the affine group of 322,560
transformations of the four-dimensional
affine space over the two-element Galois
field, the appropriate Ω is the 4×4 grid above.
… was added to the Wikipedia article Finite geometry.
(Shown above is a slightly newer image, changed to reflect
the Wikipedia article's remarks on the schoolgirl problem.)
On a former LA Times editor who reportedly died today at 73 —
"Richard Masland, who grew up with Carroll, described
his friend as a mediocre student who enjoyed midnight
raids on auto junkyards and other mischief.
But, Masland noted, he 'was never the front man.
He let other people actually do the raising of hell.'"
( Continued )
Log24 on January 31, 2015 —Spellbound (continued)The New York Times this morning, in an “… the first known crossword puzzle appeared in See St. Nicholas magazine, November 1874, p. 59 :
|
On that same date …
| The Seattle Times , Feb. 8, 2015, updated Feb. 12—
“… you begin by filling in the missing words Dice, yAhtzee, woN, yahTzee, twicE; The capital letters help to show what comes next, You take the first letter of the first inserted word, |
See also two other dates, June 3, 2015, and June 10, 2015,
in this journal and in the life of the puzzle author.
The date of the puzzle’s answer, Feb. 8, 2015, is also
not without interest.
“Click on fanciful .”
"And not all the king's men nor his horses
Will resurrect his corpus."
See as well Andy Weir's "The Egg" and Working Backward.
A version of the song in the previous post that I prefer:
A related meditation —
For a more abstract version of the
"matrix of the cosmic process,"
see "3×3 Grid" in this journal.
The online Los Angeles Times yesterday —
June 11, 2015
Robert Chartoff, an Oscar-winning Hollywood producer
who got a tantalizing peek into show business in the Catskills
and went on to make six "Rocky" films, "Raging Bull,"
"The Right Stuff" and nearly two dozen other movies,
has died at his home in Santa Monica. He was 81.
Chartoff, who died Wednesday, had been diagnosed with
pancreatic cancer two years ago, his son William said.
— Steve Chawkins
A fiction quoted here on the reported date of Chartoff's death —
“What… what happened?” you asked. “Where am I?”
“You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.
— Andy Weir, "The Egg"
“Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn
erfassen und gestalten?”
The Theory and
Organization of the
Bauhaus (1923)
This post was suggested by the Bauhaus song
"Bela Lugosi's Dead" at the beginning of the
1983 Tony Scott classic "The Hunger."
"Now we're partners in crime" — Ace of Base, "The Golden Ratio"
Or not.
"The Hunger" (1983) was directed by Tony Scott.
See also Tony Scott in this journal.
" … yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify."
— Philip Larkin, "Aubade"
From tonight's New York Times obituaries —
See as well "Child Buyer" in this journal.
Omega is a Greek letter, Ω , used in mathematics to denote
a set on which a group acts.
For instance, the affine group AGL(3,2) is a group of 1,344
actions on the eight elements of the vector 3-space over the
two-element Galois field GF(2), or, if you prefer, on the Galois
field Ω = GF(8).
Related fiction: The Eight , by Katherine Neville.
Related non-fiction: A remark by Werner Heisenberg
in this journal on Saturday, June 6, 2015, the eightfold cube ,
and the illustrations below —
|
Mathematics
The Fano plane block design |
Magic
The Deathly Hallows symbol— |
"For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross."
— Gravity's Rainbow
See also "Welcome to Me" in Log24 and recent posts tagged Grindhouse.
Update of 9 PM:
The book that "The Martian" is based on is by Andy Weir.
A somewhat Hindu (or Socratic) religious meditation from
Weir's earlier story "The Egg" —
“Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic
than you can possibly imagine."
See an informative essay at noplace.no on the work of
Oslo artist Josefine Lyche in connection with her current
(June 12-21) exhibition, "Contact."
A paragraph from that essay —
See also Lyche in this journal.
"Those that can be obtained…." —
Related music video: Waterloo.
* "In defense of the epistemic view of quantum states:
a toy theory," by Robert W. Spekkens, Perimeter Institute
for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada
Click the above image for the IMDb page from which it is taken.
"Course material associated with Jack Edmonds’ lectures
can be found here."
See also High Concept (Jan. 21, 2015) —
Image from the end of the 2012 film "Travelling Salesman"
— and another eye in a triangle …
From the Log24 post Prize (June 7, 2015)
* Zapf, a type designer, reportedly died on Thursday, June 4, 2015.
"Looking for what was, where it used to be" — Wallace Stevens
For geeks* —
" Domain, Domain on the Range , "
where Domain = the Galois tesseract and
Range = the four-element Galois field.
This post was suggested by the previous post,
by a Log24 search for Knight + Move, and by
the phrase "discouraging words" found in that search.
* A term from the 1947 film "Nightmare Alley."
From The Daily Princetonian on May 29, 2015:
"… well, isn’t that what Reunions is all about?
Making memories?"
"Try to remember the kind of September …."
From this journal on May 29, 2015:
Openings
|
The Dark Horse Rises
A box of Frosties for Joyce Carol Oates.
Backstory: Oxford Word (July 10, 2004) —
a meditation on the date January 29 —
and that date here this year.
* "Oates to retire after 2015"
— The Daily Princetonian
The above excerpt from a post of Aug. 3, 2008,
was suggested by the death date of the musician
at left in the photo below.
A related musical note:
Princeton University's president on June 2, 2015 —
“Dream Audaciously,” Eisgruber Urges Graduates
Related news —
Film director Christopher Nolan at Princeton on June 1, 2015:
“In these graduation speeches, generally, you have the
speaker say something along the lines of, ‘You need to
chase your dreams,’ ” Nolan said. “But I’m not going to
say that because I don’t believe it. I don’t want you to
chase your dreams. I want you to chase your realities.
And I want to say: Don’t chase your realities at the
expense of your dreams, but as the foundation of your
dreams.”
"If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Two pieces by NPR education writer Molly Bloom:
See also yesterday's post on another NPR / Princeton education figure,
Keith Devlin:
An illustration (click for larger view with context):
From MAA columnist Keith Devlin yesterday :
"All very depressing. I fear that this state of affairs
will continue all the time US education continues to be
treated as a political football, with our nation’s children
and their teachers treated as pawns while various
groups fight political battles…."
See as well a note on "Joyce's Use of Kubla Khan"
and remarks from Jesus College, Oxford , on
"Seeking the Sirens' Song."
A review describes the main character in the 1981 novel
The Knife in My Hands —
"His other peculiar characteristic is a fascination, developed during
his university years, with the Cabala and, like a miniature Lowry,*
he spends much of his time wandering drunkenly through its
labyrinthine mysteries."
AA motto: "Principles before personalities."
* Related material: Back to the Real.
Background — A search for the title in this journal.
Grothendieck was at times excited about space:
"The notion of space is certainly one of the oldest
in mathematics. It is fundamental to our 'geometric'
perspective on the world, and has been so tacitly
for over two millenia. It's only over the course of the
19th century that this concept has, bit-by-bit, freed
itself from the tyranny of our immediate perceptions
(that is, one and the same as the 'space' that
surrounds us), and of its traditional theoretical
treatment (Euclidean), to attain to its present
dynamism and autonomy. In our own times it has
joined the ranks of those notions that are most freely
and universally employed in mathematics, and is
familiar, I would say, to every mathematician
without exception. It has become a concept of multiple
and varied aspects, of hundreds of thousands of faces…."
— fermentmagazine.org/rands/promenade12.html
An aspect not so familiar: Diamond Space.
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