“Rarely is a TV show as brilliant and as terrible as Selfie .”
— Kevin Fallon on a new ABC TV show that starts tonight at 8 PM ET
A recent selfie from Josefine Lyche’s Instagram page:
For some remarks related to Lyche’s pentagram, see
Lyche + Mathmagic* and also yesterday’s Michaelmas Mystery.
In today’s previous post, the late Harvey Cohn posed a question that
he said might have been asked by Pythagoras:
“It is an elementary observation that an integral right triangle
has an even area. Suppose the hypotenuse is prime.
Q. How do we determine from the prime value of the hypotenuse
when the area is divisible by 4, 8, 16, or any higher power of 2?
A. We use class fields constructed by means of transcendental
functions, of course!”
— From the preface to Introduction to the Construction of Class Fields ,
by Harvey Cohn (Cambridge University Press, 1985)
Illustration:
For a related song, see Prime Suspect (Dec. 13, 2007).
Footnote of 12:14 AM Oct. 1, 2014 —
* That search yields a link to…
This Lyche webpage’s pentagram indicates an interest in Disney rather than
in Satanism. Other Lyche webpages have been less reassuring.
Related material — Posts tagged Elegantly Packaged.