who reportedly died early today in Paris, a tribute from
those who wrote the English lyrics for "Windmills of Your Mind" —
Saturday, January 26, 2019
In Memory of a Composer
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Installasjon
The above cryptic search result indicates that there may
soon be a new Norwegian art installation based on this page
of Eddington (via Log24) —
See also other posts tagged Kummerhenge.
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Friday, January 25, 2019
Design Theory
Last night's post "Night at the Social Media" suggests . . .
A 404 for Katherine Neville (born on 4/04) —
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Crucible Raiders Continues.
Fans of the New York Times philosophy series "The Stone"
(named for the legendary philosophers' stone) may consult
posts tagged "Crucible Raiders" in this journal.
Some context — the previous post, "Night at the Social Media."
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Thursday, January 24, 2019
Night at the Social Media
See also Katherine Neville, Karl Pribram, and Cooper Hewitt in this journal.
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“The Stone” Contributor Dies
"He was a regular contributor to the New York Times ’
philosophical forum, The Stone." — South Bend Tribune
See also Gutting in this journal.
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Name Space
A correction at Wikipedia (Click to enlarge.) —
That this correction is needed indicates that the phrase
"Cullinane space" might be useful. (Click to enlarge.)
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Decorated
For those who prefer more elaborate decorations —
1. A Facebook image from last August …
2. The Facebook glider suggests a tune from "The Thomas Crown Affair"
(1968) that appeared in a Dec. 16, 2018 post on Christianity and
"interlocking names"—
The revised lyrics describe a square space.
3. An even more elaborate square space:
the Dance of the Snowflakes from
Balanchine's version of The Nutcracker —
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But Seriously . . .
The previous post suggests a review.
Two images in memory of a journalist —
Illustration from a post on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019 (color inverted):
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Iconic Remotivation
From an obituary in yesterday's online New York Times —
Photo credit: Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times
This journal in the time frame of events leading to the obituary —
On "Wakean Cryptogenetics" —
"… Joyce now disposes of a complex machine thanks to which
any linguistic item culled when reading a book, a magazine,
overhearing a conversation, meditating upon a dream, can find
an actor who will underwrite it . . . ."
— P. 81 in Joyce upon the Void by Jean-Michel Rabaté,
Palgrave-Macmillan, 1991.
An Actor —
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Monday, January 21, 2019
Meditation for the Champ de Mors
"his onesidemissing for an allblind alley
leading to an Irish plot in the Champ de Mors"
— James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
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Sunday, January 20, 2019
Scope Resolution
Wikipedia on a programming term —
The scope resolution operator helps to identify
and specify the context to which an identifier refers,
particularly by specifying a namespace. The specific
uses vary across different programming languages
with the notions of scoping. In many languages
the scope resolution operator is written
"::".
In a completely different context, these four dots might represent
a geometric object — the four-point plane .
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Saturday, January 19, 2019
Friday, January 18, 2019
Location, Location, Location
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The Woke Grids …
… as opposed to The Dreaming Jewels .
A July 2014 Amsterdam master's thesis on the Golay code
and Mathieu group —
"The properties of G24 and M24 are visualized by
four geometric objects: the icosahedron, dodecahedron,
dodecadodecahedron, and the cubicuboctahedron."
Some "geometric objects" — rectangular, square, and cubic arrays —
are even more fundamental than the above polyhedra.
A related image from a post of Dec. 1, 2018 —
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Thursday, January 17, 2019
The Dreaming Jewels’ Nightmares
Some Log24 posts related to Theodore Sturgeon's 1950 tale
of The Dreaming Jewels have been tagged with that title.
For a purely mathematical approach to Sturgeon's concept see . . .
For some related nightmares, see July 2014 in this journal.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Her Work
From the above L.A. Times article —
|
Where then does the morbid negativity in her work come from? "Oh boy! That's an even bigger mystery," Andres says, laughing. "You see, I don't like talking about this stuff, because it has to do with psychic phenomena and stuff going on inside me I don't necessarily understand or want to understand. But the truth is that there is some pretty dark and scary content in the work, an acceptance of dark energies which exist whether we like it or not. "I am mostly interested in getting at a place, a mental reality, that the day-to-day human body couldn't express: a half-way place between film and the body that points to a strange, unexplainable way of seeing stuff, of feeling stuff, of knowing stuff, of being completely different." |
The New York Times this evening reports that Andres died on Jan. 6.
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Permutahedron Dream
The geometric object of the title appears in a post mentioning Bourgain
in this journal. Bourgain appears also in today's online New York Times —
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/
obituaries/jean-bourgain-dead.html .
Bourgain reportedly died on December 22.
An image from this journal on that date —
Related poetic meditations —
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The Dreaming Polyhedron
"Here is a recipe for preparing a copy of the Mathieu group M24.
The main ingredient is a genus-3 regular polyhedron X
with 56 triangular faces, 84 edges, and 24 vertices.
The most delicate part of this recipe is to hold the polyhedron
by the 24 vertices and immerse the rest of it in 3-dimensional space."
— "How to Make the Mathieu Group M24 ," undated webpage
by David A. Richter, Western Michigan University
Illustration from that page —
"Another model of the (universal cover of the) polyhedron X"
Related fiction —
Cover of a 1971 British paperback edition of The Dreaming Jewels,
a story by Theodore Sturgeon (first version published in 1950):
Discuss Richter's model and the Sturgeon tale
in the context of posts tagged Aitchison.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Paragraph 13
Related material —
The recent post "For Captain Midnight and the Whole Sick Crew"
and an illustration from the Log24 link in yesterday's post "Searching" —
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Monday, January 14, 2019
For the Hero of Midnight
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Sunday, January 13, 2019
Sunday the Thirteenth (Revisited)
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Eleven’s Rosebud
The previous post suggests a review.
On December 11 (click to enlarge) —
Related image from this journal on December 11 ("Carried Away") —
The new American Mathematical Society logo suggests
the Jamaican Bobsled Team:
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Into the Upside Down
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The Clifford Narrative
See also Clifford in this journal, in particular
The Matrix for Quantum Mystics
(Log24, St. Andrew's Day, 2017).
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Saturday, January 12, 2019
Friday, January 11, 2019
Permutations at Oslo
See also yesterday’s Archimedes at Hiroshima and the
above 24 graphic permutations on All Souls’ Day 2010.
For some backstory, see Narrative Line (November 10, 2014).
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Atiyah at Oslo
Photo caption for the obituary below —
"Michael Atiyah, center, and Isadore M. Singer receive the Abel Award
from Norway’s King Harald in Oslo in 2004…" Credit: Knut Falch,
SCANPIX/Associated Press
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Thursday, January 10, 2019
Archimedes at Hiroshima
Two examples from the Wikipedia article "Archimedean solid" —
Iain Aitchison said in a talk last year at Hiroshima that
the Mathieu group M24 can be represented as permuting
naturally the 24 edges of the cuboctahedron.
The 24 vertices of the truncated octahedron are labeled
naturally by the 24 elements of S4 in a permutahedron —
Can M24 be represented as permuting naturally
the 24 vertices of the truncated octahedron?
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Reality at Virginia Tech:
The Takeuchi Question —
From remarks at Miami last December:
A similiar question about the Fano plane —
Can we make the model more "real"?
From remarks here last November:
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For Captain Midnight* and the Whole Sick Crew
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Valid States of Maximal Knowledge
"Few scripts would have the audacity
to have the deus ex machina be
a Captain Midnight decoder ring."
— Review of "The House with
a Clock in Its Walls" (2018 film)
Related mathematics (click to enlarge) . . .
The "uwa.edu.au" above is for the University of Western Australia.
See the black swan in its coat of arms (and in the above film).
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Desperately Seeking Clarity*
A much earlier, much truer, obituary —
* A sequel to Resonant Clarity and Desperately Seeking Resonance.
Quantum electrodynamics is also known as QED.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019
For the Church of Synchronology*
* See Synchronology and the previous post.
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Lost in Translation
"The field of quantum optics was essentially born
with the development of quantum theories of optical coherence
and of the states of the radiation field by Glauber… in 1963."
— Rodney Loudon, The Quantum Theory of Light ,
Third Edition, Oxford University Press, 23 November 2000
The New York Times on a December 26 death —
Hebrew, Aramaic, whatever.
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Desperately Seeking Resonance
"Eight strangers from cities around the globe
begin having experiences that defy explanation."
As do "Burnt Norton" and "Bird Box."
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Monday, January 7, 2019
Resonant Clarity
|
Abstract for a talk at the City University of New York:
The Experience of Meaning Once the question of truth is settled, and often prior to it, what we value in a mathematical proof or conjecture is what we value in a work of lyric art: potency of meaning. An absence of clutter is a feature of such artifacts: they possess a resonant clarity that allows their meaning to break on our inner eye like light. But this absence of clutter is not tantamount to 'being simple': consider Eliot's Four Quartets or Mozart's late symphonies. Some truths are complex, and they are simplified at the cost of distortion, at the cost of ceasing to be truths. Nonetheless, it's often possible to express a complex truth in a way that precipitates a powerful experience of meaning. It is that experience we seek — not simplicity per se , but the flash of insight, the sense we've seen into the heart of things. I'll first try to say something about what is involved in such recognitions; and then something about why an absence of clutter matters to them. |
For some context, see posts tagged Artifacts.
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Sunday, January 6, 2019
The Roethke Quote (For Harlan Kane)
Hat tip to Benjamin Markovits …
… for a quote from Roethke —
“Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!”
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At the Still Point . . .
For Richard Marks, a film editor who reportedly died unexpectedly
at 75 in New York City on New Year's Eve —
Click to enlarge the inset.
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For Broom Bridge*
GL(2,3) is not unrelated to GL(3,2).
See Quaternion Automorphisms
and Spinning in Infinity.
* See Wikipedia.
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Saturday, January 5, 2019
Cornell Geometry
See Thurston + Cornell and Henderson + Cornell.
This post was suggested by the latter.
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Friday, January 4, 2019
Philosophy in a New Tree
See also http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Cleft .
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Thursday, January 3, 2019
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Wolf as Lamb
The above graphic design is by Noma Bar.
See as well the lamb-in-triangle of the Dec. 27 post
A Candle for Lily —
Related material —
Remarks by Evelyn Lamb on the Deathly Hallows symbol.
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“Pleasantly Discursive” Continues.
From this journal on December 13th, 2016 —
" There is a pleasantly discursive treatment
of Pontius Pilate’s unanswered question
‘What is truth?’ "
— Coxeter, 1987, introduction to Trudeau’s
The Non-Euclidean Revolution
Also on December 13th, 2016 —
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Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Child’s Play Continues — La Despedida
This post was suggested by the phrase "Froebel Decade" from
the search results below.
This journal a decade ago had a post on the late Donald Westlake,
an author who reportedly died of a heart attack in Mexico on Dec. 31,
2008, while on his way to a New Year's Eve dinner.
One of Westlake's books —
Related material —
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