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Thursday, November 3, 2022

Linear Transformations for Scientists, or . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:26 pm

"Rotate, Flip, and Stretch, Baby!"

"One way to evaluate an artist is to observe the quantity and quality
of misinterpretation his work begets. By this measure Everett ranks
very highly. 'Damn it, I don’t understand it, but I love it,' mutters one
of the characters, regarding Sill’s weapon of nothingness. Same.
Kitu has a colleague named Eigen Vector, which refers to
something having to do with linear transformations?"

— Book review by Molly Young in The New York Times
     
on All Hallows' Day 2022

See as well Bik in The New Yorker  on June 23, 2021.

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