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Entertaining Mr. Slade —

" The subject is justified by its usefulness
rather than as a 'rite of passage.' ”.

— The late Martin Muldoon reviewing a book,
From Vector Spaces to Function Spaces:
Introduction to Functional Analysis with Applications ,
by Yutaka Yamamoto (SIAM, 2012)

Such an introduction is properly a rite of pure mathematics —
the passage in the title from vector spaces to function spaces.

That passage is one of mathematical beauty.
Usefulness is Hiroshima.

Muldoon reportedly died on August 1, 2019.

This journal on that date had a post titled 

Different Meanings:  For Whom the Bell .

The "Bell" in that post was the author of a New York Times  book review.
I prefer a Stephen King bell —

Fans of non-Christian religions ( like Robert Thurman
in Too Cool for School? ) may enjoy the vampire
oeuvre  of Kate Beckinsale —

The above is an image from a Log24
search for Square Inch Space.

See also Harvard ex-president Faust on Hogwarts
and (like the above photo, also on Aug. 13) …

* See previous instances of the title in this journal.

The New York Times  reports this evening the
death of a Conceptual artist on October 19 —

Conceptual art from October 19 —

The Stuff of Legend —

Stronger Stuff —

For a third stuff — that which dreams are made of — see Mantilla.

“There has never since been any serious question
that the event from which to date the founding of 
Harvard College is this vote on October 28, 1636.”

— Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College

See also D8ing the Joystick (4/04 2018).

From an article on cybersecurity in today's new New Yorker —

Boback and Hopkins formed a corporation.
Hopkins came up with its name, Tiversa ,
a portmanteau of “time” and “universe.”
It was also an anagram of veritas :  Latin for
“truth,” but scrambled.

Then there is …
vastier veritas —

The Harvard Crimson  yesterday —

* See also last night's post Cipher in this  journal.

"The postwar self became a cipher to be decoded."

— Nathaniel Comfort in Nature , PDF dated 10 October 2019

From a Log24 search for Temple of Doom —

Entertainment from NBC on Friday night —

The above question, and Saturday morning's post on a film director
from Melbourne, suggest an image from December's Melbourne Noir —

 (March 8, 2018, was the date of death for Melbourne author Peter Temple.)

* For the title, see Saturday morning's post
"Popular Mechanics: Midnight Upgrade."

The above scenes are from an imaginary sequel to
“Topological Quantum Field Theory for Vampires.” —

From the end credits for a 2016 TV mini-series 
based on the Stephen King novel 11/22/63 —

This post was suggested by the Oct. 22 post
Logos, by  the Oct. 11 post Dick Date, and by
the Oct. 11 death of an MIT robotics professor.

Related tasteless humor —
A headline from the print version of the recent
technology issue of The New Yorker :

… on some unspecified date,* according to
the University of Texas at Austin yesterday.

See also Tate in a Blackboard Jungle post 
from December 5, 2013.

* On October 16, 2019  (AMS Day),  according to 
the Harvard University department of mathematics.

Click the above image
for its source.

See also Hexagram 19
in this journal.

From a 1962 young-adult novel —

"There's something phoney in the whole setup, Meg thought.
There is definitely something rotten in the state of Camazotz."

Song adapted from a 1960 musical —

"In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happy-ever-aftering
Than here in Camazotz!"

English subtitles: The Tomorrow Man – transcript

The interested reader may consult Google 
for the source of the above passage. 

The American Mathematical Society has declared that
today is AMS Day.

A different sort of code than in the previous post —

In memory of some Trinity mathematicians:

Movie poster designer Philip Gips reportedly died on
Thursday, October 3, 2019. This journal on that date:

A Sense of the Landmarks.

John Horgan in Scientific American  magazine on October 8, 2019 —

"In the early 1990s, I came to suspect that the quest
for a unified theory is religious rather than scientific.
Physicists want to show that all things came from
one thing:  a force, or essence, or membrane
wriggling in eleven dimensions, or something that
manifests perfect mathematical symmetry. In their
search for this primordial symmetry, however,
physicists have gone off the deep end . . . ."

Other approaches —

See "Story Theory of Truth" in this  journal and, from the November 2019  
Notices of the American Mathematical Society . . .

"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Optimus Prime

Or:  Je repars .

From Wallace Stevens —

"Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals."

— “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” VI

Mathematician Hanfried Lenz reportedly died in Berlin on June 1, 2013.

This journal that weekend —

Kiley in Blackboard Jungle , 1955 —

From the previous post —

"Prenons arbitrairement dans le tableau ci-dessus…."

Related material — "Ici vient M. Jordan."

Or the Oak Bar at the Plaza?

"Paging Mr. Kaplan."

From the reported date of Mr. Conner's death —

Poet Wallace Stevens was born 140 years ago today.

For another 140, see Diamond Theory in 1937.

For some notes related to a Stevens poem from 1937,
see "arrowy, still strings" in this journal.