In memory of Susan Bernard , who reportedly died on June 21, 2019* —
Image from the 2016 post A Paris Review . . .
* See as well this journal on June 21,
"Cube Tales for Solstice Day."
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Creepy Peepers
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Ex Fano* Continues
Yesterday's post The Benson Epiphany suggests a review of another
retired UC Davis mathematics professor who also died in May…
John Robert Chuchel —
UC Davis mathematics students may consult the following page:
A check of this journal on the date of Chuchel's reported death
yields posts now tagged Hallows for UC Davis.
* See Ex Fano Apollinis (June 24).
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Saturday, June 29, 2019
That’s “Merry” … And Quite Contrary
"John Horton Conway is a cross between
Archimedes, Mick Jagger and Salvador Dalí."
— The Guardian paraphrasing Siobhan Roberts,
John Horton Conway and his Leech lattice doodle
in The Guardian . Photo: Hollandse Hoogte/Eyevine.
. . . .
"In junior school, one of Conway’s teachers had nicknamed him 'Mary'.
He was a delicate, effeminate creature. Being Mary made his life
absolute hell until he moved on to secondary school, at Liverpool’s
Holt High School for Boys. Soon after term began, the headmaster
called each boy into his office and asked what he planned to do with
his life. John said he wanted to read mathematics at Cambridge.
Instead of 'Mary' he became known as 'The Prof'. These nicknames
confirmed Conway as a terribly introverted adolescent, painfully aware
of his own suffering." — Siobhan Roberts, loc. cit.
From the previous post —
See as well this journal on the above Guardian date —
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Friday, June 28, 2019
A Velvet Buzzsaw*
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Plato and the Illiterate Guardian
"Leibniz … could also be called the first digerati."
— The Guardian , May 10, 2013
"Digerati" is a term modeled after "literati" —
Example —
See also this journal on the above
Guardian date: 10 May 2013.
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Thursday, June 27, 2019
Prayers and Thoughts, Hearts and Minds
See also Hard Candy.
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Group Actions on the 4x4x4 Cube
For affine group actions, see Ex Fano Appollinis (June 24)
and Solomon's Cube.
For one approach to Mathieu group actions on a 24-cube subset
of the 4x4x4 cube, see . . .
For a different sort of Mathieu cube, see Aitchison.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Intellectual Obsession: The Frankfurt School
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Coo-Coo-Ca-Choo*
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Plan 9 from Stephen King
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Art Installation
Vinnie Mancuso, in an article now dated December 25, 2018 —
Not so useless —
The caption in fine print below says
"Download Blender and install it.
I won't show you how to do that
because I don't want to insult your
intelligence…."
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Rhetorical Question, Rhetorical Answer
Q —
"What kind of person
bokehs an inscape?"
A —
Robert Gorham Davis:
McLuhan's " 'mosaic' mode of presentation …
rules out discriminations, qualifications,
close reasoning, the structuring of
articulated wholes."
— Robert Gorham Davis on Marshall McLuhan.
See also Articulation in this journal.
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Monday, June 24, 2019
Da Capo*
The Small quotation is from a page describing his transcription
for string quartet of Bach's Goldberg Variations:
https://manontroppomusic.wordpress.com/goldberg-variations/.
* See too other Log24 occurrences of "da capo."
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Loop de Loop
From a New Yorker theatre review posted at 5 AM ET today —
“A Strange Loop” takes its title from a concept pioneered by
Douglas Hofstadter, the cognitive-science professor who
wrote the book “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”
and, later, the more focussed study “I Am a Strange Loop”;
both were premised upon the impossibly complex, hopelessly
circular means by which each of us composes a self, an “I.”
See as well "Strange Loop" and "Loop de Loop" in this journal.
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A Tale
In memory of John Clarkeson, Harvard ’64, who “read broadly and inquisitively,
and was always on the lookout for a good tale….” Clarkeson reportedly died
on May 28, 2019.
Some Harvard-related material from that date: The Hogwash Papers.
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Sunday, June 23, 2019
Verbum Sat
Vinnie Mancuso, in an article now dated December 25, 2018 —
Related art —
Click image for further details.
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For Zankel Hall
See also other posts now tagged For Zankel Hall.
(Note the phrase "geometric complexities" in those posts.)
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