Fermat’s Sombrero
Mexican singer Vincente Fernandez holds up the Latin Grammy award (L) for Best Ranchero Album he won for “Mas Con El Numero Uno” and the Latin Grammy Legend award at the third annual Latin Grammy Awards September 18, 2002 in Hollywood. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
From a (paper) journal note of January 5, 2002:
Princeton Alumni Weekly
January 24, 2001
The Sound of Math:
Turning a mathematical theorem
and proof into a musical
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How do you make a musical about a bunch of dead mathematicians and one very alive, very famous, Princeton math professor? |
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Wallace Stevens:
Poet of the American Imagination
Consider these lines from
“Six Significant Landscapes” part VI:
Rationalists, wearing square hats,
Think, in square rooms,
Looking at the floor,
Looking at the ceiling.
They confine themselves
To right-angled triangles.
If they tried rhomboids,
Cones, waving lines, ellipses-
As, for example, the ellipse of the half-moon-
Rationalists would wear sombreros.Addendum of 9/19/02: See also footnote 25 in
Theological Method and Imagination
by Julian N. Hartt