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In Scientific American  today —

For a more sophisticated approach to the phrase
“blocks in a box,” search for “the 759 blocks” and
then see box759.wordpress.com.

The mathematics there is based on an apparently
less  sophisticated example of “blocks in a box” —

See also Cube Space in this  journal.

See http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=.space.

See also Sinbad.

For Auld Lang Syne —

The New York Times  reports an April 18 death:

RA Wilson —”[Submitted on 20 Apr 2021 (v1),
last revised 23 Apr 2021 (this version, v2)]”

SH Cullinane — See as well
box759.wordpress.com.

Alex Traub in today’s online  New York Times —

“Helen Weaver, who fell in love with Jack Kerouac months before
‘On the Road’ rocketed him into the literary stratosphere, and who
53 years later made a record of their romance in an enduring book
of her own, died on April 13 at her home in Woodstock, N.Y.
She was 89.”

“The Beat rebel charmed Ms. Weaver with gentleness.
He agreed to attend a dinner party with Ms. Weaver’s
parents in New Milford, Conn., and began the evening
by asking whether they believed in God.”

“Helen Hemenway Weaver was born on June 18, 1931,
in Madison, Wis. Her father, Warren, was chairman of
the mathematics department at the University of
Wisconsin, and her mother, Mary (Hemenway) Weaver,
was a schoolteacher and later a homemaker.

Helen grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y., where the family had
moved when her father began working as an executive at
the Rockefeller Foundation and other nonprofit organizations.”

In Nomine Patris

The Times‘s Warren link above leads to an obituary of Warren Weaver:

In other news . . .

From a Log24 search for Canonicity —

Related examinations: Space Cross and Wittgenstein’s Picture.

Cockteaser Meets Kickstarter

In memory of an advertising mogul who reportedly died today:

The above Altmetric report is apparently thanks to
my registering with ScienceOpen.com on April 19.

* Author of The Abacus Conundrum.

* See the previous post.

See as well Donoghue in this  journal.

Related material: The Utrecht Models.

The voice of Stelmaria.

See as well Dark Materials in this journal.

As for Epstein’s problem . . .

See  Lying at the Axis .

* A mathematical term. This post was suggested
by the image link to posts tagged Gainesville at
the end of the previous post.

This image is in memory of an interior decorator
who reportedly died on April 9, 2021.

It was suggested by a post from this journal on
that date.  The musical note is from a later version
of the April 9 image .

Related material:
Schlummerlied  by Cornelius Gurlitt (Opus 101, No. 6).

Vide . . .

From AntiChristmas 2010 —

Above: Art Theorist Rosalind Krauss and The Ninefold Square

   For Krauss:

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Not  by Don DeLillo —

Those apt to be seduced by language, either secular or religious,
might note that the author of the Point Omega book above is also
the author of  Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power —

Hemingway fans might note as well a website whose background
image memorializes the Catholic fallen of the Spanish Civil War:

Continues.

A pyramid scheme^† in memory of the late Bernie Madoff —

The above passage from Whitehead’s 1906 book suggests
that the tetrahedral model may be older than Polster thinks.*

This is shown by . . .

^† See also “Profzi Scheme.”

* For some related work of the above “D. Mesner,” see
Mesner, D. (1967). “Sets of Disjoint Lines in PG(3, q),”
Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 19, 273-280.

See also, in this  journal,  Mere Geometry.

Related material —

Points With Parts

This leads to . . .

Related material:  The Guy Embedding.

Recent posts on hotels and education suggest a review.
See “Child Buyer” in this journal.

From John Hersey’s The Child Buyer  (1960):

“I was wondering about that this morning…
About forgetting. I’ve always had an idea that
each memory was a kind of picture,
an insubstantial picture. I’ve thought of it as
suddenly coming into your mind when you need it,
something you’ve seen, something you’ve heard,
then it may stay awhile, or else it flies out, then
maybe it comes back another time….
If all the pictures went out, if I forgot everything,
where would they go? Just out into the air? Into the sky?
Back home around my bed, where my dreams stay?”

“We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns….”

— Wallace Stevens

— Postcard from eBay 

For Timeless  fans, a flashback to April 8, 2016 —

See as well the above Rittenhouse date — April 8, 2016 —
in posts tagged April 8-11 2016.

Ever Witch Way

Related art in memory of Arthur Kopit —

This post was suggested by a recent American Mathematical Society essay:

“My goal here is to make the results of one such collaboration,
by Branko Grünbaum (1929-2018) and Geoffrey Shephard (1927-2016)
in the area of discrete geometry more widely known.”

Grünbaum reportedly died on Sept. 14, 2018 — Holy Cross Day.

As for Shephard . . .

“… incessant need to crack the detail ….”  Or vice-versa.