Log24

"When times are mysterious
Serious numbers
Will always be heard."
— Paul Simon,
"When Numbers Get Serious"

"There is a pleasantly discursive treatment of
Pontius Pilate's unanswered question 'What is truth?'"

— H. S. M. Coxeter, introduction to Richard J. Trudeau's remarks
on the "story theory" of truth as opposed to the "diamond theory"
of truth in The Non-Euclidean Revolution  (1987)

The deaths of Roth and Grünbaum on September 14th,
The Feast of the Holy Cross, along with Douthat's column
today titled "Only the Truth Can Save Us Now," suggest a
review of …

 .

See an American Mathematical Society obituary
and a Seattle Times  obituary.

For Flowers and  Brown —

See also, in this  journal, A Fellow of Trinity . 

See also this  journal on Sept. 14
and related posts tagged Interstice.

[Revised throughout the day on Sept. 24, 2018.]

"Mathematics may be art, but to the general public it is
a black art, more akin to magic and mystery. This presents
a constant challenge to the mathematical community: to explain
how art fits into our subject and what we mean by beauty."

— Sir Michael Atiyah, quoted here on April 4, 2016

Atiyah's remarks today on the Riemann hypothesis, based on his earlier
remarks on "arithmetic physics" and α, the fine-structure constant,
seem to exemplify the "magic and mystery" approach.

From some previous Log24 posts —

Update of 6:06 PM ET the same day —

https://twitter.com/mpoessel/status/1044131977950109696 —

For related magic and mystery, see Log24 posts tagged on090405.

Vincent Canby in The New York Times , 
January 28, 1971, reviews the film "The Statue" —

There is not much point in going into the dialogue,
but you'll get the idea from the line spoken by
a little girl who is shown gazing in wonderment
at the copy of Michelangelo's work in the
Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
"Golly," she says, "if that's David, I'd like to see Goliath!"
"The Statue" may have the distinction of being the first
adolescent comedy about penis envy. 

In keeping with filmmaker J.J. Abrams's philosophy of the "mystery box" —

Canby's phrase "you'll get the idea" suggests a Log24 review . . .

<h1 id="top">
Bacow Heads to Home State of Michigan 
In Quest to Fix Harvard’s Image Problem
</h1>

<div class="article-byline" style="display: none;">
By <a href='/writer/1213317/Kristine_E._Guillaume/'>
Kristine E. Guillaume</a> 
and <a href='/writer/1213264/Jamie_D._Halper/'>
Jamie D. Halper</a>, 
Crimson Staff Writers

<time class="article-date"
   datetime="2018-09-16T23:04:29-04:00"
   title="Updated September 16, 2018 at 11:04p.m.">
   September 16, 2018
</time>
</div>

See also Trivial + Affine and Eidetic Reduction.

See the previous post and "Frames Per Second."

Sir Anthony Hopkins in "Slipstream." See "Home from Home."

"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."

Her 

A literary reference suggested by the previous post and by
today's 2 AM post "Show" —

See also Snowflake in this  journal.

From a search in this journal for "Public Square" —

See also Gresham in this journal.

The American Mathematical Society on Wednesday, September 5,
reported a death from October 23 last year —

See also Higman-Sims and 5×5 in this  journal.

In memory of a showman who reportedly died on August 31 —

See also this journal on August 31.

(Continued from 12 AM Sept. 4)

See also  Identity + Paz  in this  journal.

(Suggested by the previous post)

* For the church, see Kermode + Garber.

For the title, see Paranoia Strikes Deep (Dec. 1, 2011).

Related reading —

(Continued)

"The absence of adults forces children to practice their social skills."

This is from . . .

See also . . .

" Martin Shubik, an economist whose prescient visions
of a computerized world and pioneering applications
of game theory to everyday life enlivened what has been
described as the dismal science, died on Aug. 22 at his
home in Branford, Conn. He was 92."

— Sam Roberts in The New York Times  yesterday

From Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind —