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… 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.

For Dan Brown fans — See posts now tagged Masonic Bricks.

Richard Sandomir in this evening's online New York Times —

Nelson reportedly died at 90 on Tuesday, September 24, 2019.

The remarks on Harvard existential nihilism posted here on that date
suggest a graphic illustration …

Venn trick o'list —

Nothing Galore

See as well a post from the preceding day,
Rabbit Hole Meets Memory Hole.

"The sad truth is that, by and large, mathematics is feared
and perhaps even openly disliked in the popular culture of
the majority of countries across the globe. At the very least,
math is often perceived as 'hard' and 'sterile,' pehaps even
remote, and unforgiving."

— James Tanton, Halloween 2018

Related material —

"Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical
words for many of the Grateful Dead’s finest songs, died
Sept. 23 at at his home in San Rafael, Calif. He was 78."

From a Log24 search for Dolgachev —

"The purpose of mathematics cannot be derived from 
an activity inferior to it but from a higher sphere of
human activity, namely, religion."

— Igor Shafarevitch, 1973 remark published in 1982.

"Perhaps."

— Steven H. Cullinane, February 13, 2019 
 

A Hollywood version —

The "Dom" of the title is the cathedral of Cologne.
The DOM is the Document Object Model of HTML:

For more-recent existential vibrations, see yesterday morning's post
on a Crimson  philosopher's "Finding Purpose Through Nihilism."

There is also  finding purpose through dating —

(from the source code for the above Crimson  article)

Related material — D8ing.

(Continued from November 27, 2010.)

The previous post suggests a review of a Tilman Piesk
illustration, with the general form of a 4-simplex, from
the Wikipedia article titled Simplex .  As the article 
notes, the lines shown connecting points are those of a
tesseract.

Detail from an OpenScholar tutorial —

The above phrase from Cicero means, according to 
the usual translation, "explorer of truth."

Some may prefer a different translation of "inventore."

Related material —

See also A Counting-Pattern.

From the above aldaily.com link —

Related course — "History and Human Capital" at Harvard, a course
taught last spring by professors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz —

Related reading — "Human Capital," by Claudia Goldin:

The above material suggested this post's title, "Das Humankapital ."

The same phrase is also the title of a perceptive website from Linz, Austria.

* For the alternative title, see a Wikipedia article on The Jew of Linz .

See also this  journal on the above date (Jan. 27, 2012).

Backstory:  Search this journal for sciencenews.

"Changes interlock…." — John Dewey

Indeed they do.

See also Log24 remarks from the date of Greene's death
in posts now tagged Bregnans. 

A page related to Eleanor Cook's "wonderful first line"
quoted above from A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens :

A Reader's Guide to Eleanor Cook —

From the previous post —

" . . . Only by the form, the structure,
Can words or music reach
The stillness . . . ."

— Adapted from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets 
     by replacing "pattern" with "structure."

Other such replacements —