In memory of a mathematics professor —
Posts now tagged Montana Quality.
Friday, June 9, 2017
Enchanting
"Among the most enchanting aspects of the Alhambra is
the constant sound of flowing water emanating from its fountains."
— Bob Taylor, commdiginews.com, January 16, 2017
See also Snow White Meets Apple and the cover of
The New York Times Book Review from October 4, 2015 —
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Proprietary Code
Quixote Vive! — Terry Gilliam, June 4, 2017
Review of a post from March 7, 2017 —
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"The supervisory read-only memory (SROM)
— Elliot Williams at Hackaday , March 4, 2017, From a reply to a comment on the above story —
"You are singing a very fearful and oppressive tune. A perhaps less oppressive tune —
Related scene — Richard Kiley in "Blackboard Jungle," 1955:
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Development Hell
Two readings —
On the director of "The Zero Theorem" —
Terry Gilliam Finally Wraps on ‘Don Quixote’ Film After 17 Years.
More seriously —
On a Spanish author who reportedly died at 86 on Sunday, June 4.
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Anywhere in Years
" In 1965, Mr. Simmons, an incisive, erudite reviewer and essayist,
won a William Faulkner Foundation Award for Powdered Eggs [ 1964 ],
recognized as a notable first novel. (He wryly called it his
'64th first novel.') The Boston Globe said it was 'certainly among
the outstanding fictions of the ′60s.' [ Later, in 1971,* ] The novelist
Harry Crews heralded him as 'one of the finest comic voices to appear
anywhere in years.' "
— Sam Roberts in a New York Times obituary this evening
See also Harry Crews in this journal.
Roberts says Simmons also wrote "a savage sendup of The New York Times
Book Review , where he had worked as an editor for three decades."
Some not-so-savage related material —
* "Anywhere in years" — From http://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/21/archives/
an-oldfashioned-darling-by-charles-simmons- 202-pp-new-york-coward.html
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Snow White Meets Apple
Tabletop fountain from the June 5 opening video of Apple's 2017
Worldwide Developer Conference —
Kristen Stewart (Snow White in June 2012) as a personal shopper —
Personal shopping result —
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Three Things at Once
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Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Cultist Drama
From a post of last Friday, June 2 —
See also Transformers in this journal.
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Transformers (2007)
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The Table
John Horgan and James (Jim) McClellan, according to Horgan
in Scientific American on June 1, 2017 —
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Me: "Jim, you're a scholar! Professor! Esteemed historian of science! And yet you don’t really believe science is capable of producing truth." Jim: "Science is stories we tell about nature. And some stories are better than other stories. And you can compare stories to each other on all kinds of grounds, but you have no access to"— he pauses for dramatic effect— "The Truth. Or any mode of knowing outside of your own story-telling capabilities, which include rationality, experiment, explanatory scope and the whole thing. I would love to have some means of making knowledge about the world that would allow us to say, 'This is really it. There really are goddamn electrons.'" He whacks the table. |
See also posts tagged Dirac and Geometry and Glitch.
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Monday, June 5, 2017
The Fork*
"Neil Gordon, whose cerebral novels about radical politics,
most famously 'The Company You Keep,' challenged readers
with biblical parables and ethical dilemmas, died on May 19
in Manhattan. He was 59. . . . .
. . . he earned . . . . a doctorate from Yale, where his dissertation
was titled** 'Stranger Than Fiction: The Occult Short Stories of
Hawthorne and Balzac.'"
— Sam Roberts in The New York Times
* For the title (suggested by the date May 19), see posts tagged Y for Yale.
** Actually (and more sensibly) titled "Stranger than Fiction:
The Status of Truth in the Occult Short Stories of Hawthorne and Balzac."
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For Peter Jackson
Tom Hiddleston stars in
the action packed Kong: Skull Island
Related material — (update of 8:04 PM ET) —
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Magic in Mexico
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Sunday, June 4, 2017
In Memory of the Time Cube Page*
From this journal on August 18, 2015, "A Wrinkle in Terms" —
For two misuses by John Baez of the phrase “permutation group”
at the n-Category Café, see “A Wrinkle in the Mathematical Universe”
and “Re: A Wrinkle…” —
“There is such a thing as a permutation group.”
— Adapted from A Wrinkle in Time , by Madeleine L’Engle
* See RIP, Time Cube at gizmodo.com (September 1, 2015).
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Sequel to “The Square”* —
The Cube
CodePen logo, pictured here on May 28, 2017 —
From YouTube, "The Cube," published on April 6, 2016 —
Meanwhile, also on April 6, 2016, at 2:01 AM ET …
* See The Pinterest Directive and Expanding the Spielraum.
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Saturday, June 3, 2017
The Faithful Slave Girl
"In the story, Ali Baba is a poor woodcutter who discovers the secret
of a thieves' den, entered with the phrase 'Open Sesame'.
The thieves learn this and try to kill Ali Baba, but Ali Baba's
faithful slave-girl foils their plots." — Wikipedia
Related material —
"Mr. Loeb was particularly interested in finding a way to unlock the value
of Yahoo’s stake in Alibaba, which was already shaping up to be one of
China’s leading internet companies. He pushed the board to recruit a star
like Ms. Mayer to get people excited about a company that had been
stumbling for years."
— Vindu Goel in today's online New York Times
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Expanding the Spielraum (Continued*)
Or: The Square
"What we do may be small, but it has
a certain character of permanence."
— G. H. Hardy
* See Expanding the Spielraum in this journal.
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Friday, June 2, 2017
Squares and Circles, 1936
"This essay and exhibition might well be dedicated
to those painters of squares and circles
(and the architects influenced by them)
who have suffered at the hands of
philistines with political power."
— Alfred H. Barr, Jr. in Cubism and Abstract Art ,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1936,
page 18
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Thursday, June 1, 2017
Art Spaces (For Frank Sinatra and Janet Leigh)
From The New York Times today —
MoMA’s Makeover Rethinks the Presentation of Art
"The new design calls for more gallery space and a transformed
main lobby, physical changes that, along with the re-examination
of art collections and diversity, represent an effort to open up MoMA
and break down the boundaries defined by its founder, Alfred Barr.
'It’s a rethinking of how we were originally conceived,' Glenn D. Lowry,
the museum’s director, said in an interview at MoMA. 'We had created
a narrative for ourselves that didn’t allow for a more expansive reading
of our own collection, to include generously artists from very different
backgrounds.'"
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Frequently Thought Together
From Amazon.com today —
Related material — Tyson in this journal.
Update of 2:48 PM the same day —
For Brooke Gladstone untainted by the above questionable
associates, see a piece from May 18, 2011.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Diamond Bits
Or: Putting the Pinter in Pinterest
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From "A Poem for Pinter" Log24 on Oct. 13, 2005 The Guardian on Harold Pinter, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature: "Earlier this year, he announced his decision to retire from playwriting in favour of poetry," Michael Muskal in today's Los Angeles Times: "Pinter, 75, is known for his sparse and thin style as well as his etched characters whose crystal patter cuts through the mood like diamond drill bits." Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise (See Jan. 25): "'That old Jew gave me this here.' Egan looked at the diamond…. 'It's worth a whole lot of money– you can tell that just by looking– but it means something, I think. It's got a meaning, like.' 'Let's see,' Egan said, 'what would it mean?' He took hold of Pablo's hand cupping the stone and held his own hand under it. '"The jewel is in the lotus," perhaps that's what it means. The eternal in the temporal….'" |
See as well an image in a link target from today's noon post —
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Monday, May 29, 2017
Ordinary Evening in a Paper Town
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The American Sublime
Line from "Vide," a post of June 8, 2014 —
Vide Classical Geometry in Light of Galois Geometry.
Recall that vide means different things in Latin and in French.
See also Stevens + "Vacant Space" in this journal.
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Sunday, May 28, 2017
Freeze Frame
In memory of John Severson, the founder of Surfer magazine —
"Freeze-frame surfer, and as a live Hendrix 'E Z Rider' blares
over the soundtrack, the surfer lifts his arms and rises like Christ
into the sky."
— Rolling Stone , August 5, 1971, on the film Rainbow Bridge
Severson reportedly died on Friday, May 26, 2017.
For a rather different sort of surfing, see this journal on that date.
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Bullshit Studies
The previous post dealt with a symbol of an apparently
admirable "social development environment."
For a less admirable development environment, see a film
described in a July 2014 story from Film New Europe —
"Shooting started in Bucharest on 9 June 2014. . . ."
This journal on 8-9 June 2014 —
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Banner of a Strange Device
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Saturday, May 27, 2017
Serious Synchronology
The above image includes a July 9, 2014, file photo.
From this journal on that date —
“Be serious, because
The stone may have contempt
For too-familiar hands”
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Friday, May 26, 2017
Power Tools …
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Night at the Museum
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Day at the Museum
From the 1994 film review linked to above —
Reality Bites – Peter Travers in Rolling Stone , Feb. 1994
"Life after college – the time between graduation and
finding a job that pays your rent without making you puke.
Panic time. By spinning something fresh out of something
familiar, Reality Bites scores the first comedy knockout of
the new year. It also brings out the vibrant best in Winona
Ryder and Ethan Hawke as friends who resist being lovers,
makes a star of Janeane Garofalo as their tart-tongued
buddy and puts Ben Stiller on the map as a director."
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Taormina Test
Mark Zuckerberg in a commencement speech
at Harvard yesterday —
"Movies and pop culture get this all wrong.
The idea of a single eureka moment
is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate
since we haven’t had ours. It prevents people
with seeds of good ideas from getting started.
Oh, you know what else movies get wrong about
innovation? No one writes math formulas on glass.
That’s not a thing."
The Thing from Taormina —
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Headline Style at The New York Times
Sounds like a job for Amy Adams.
Amy Adams at the Lancia Café in Taormina, Sicily, on June 15, 2013.
Adams was in Taormina for the Italian premiere of her Superman film.
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Thursday, May 25, 2017
The Date
The date in Urban Dictionary of an entry on the phrase
"Ultima Thule" is January 25, 2008.
See that date in this journal.
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The Story of Six Continues
A post of March 22, 2017, was titled "The Story of Six."
Related material from that date —
"I meant… a larger map." — Number Six in "The Prisoner"
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Logos Review
From Balboa Press —
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More than a pretty face designed to identify a product, a logo combines powerful elements super boosted with sophisticated branding techniques. Logos spark our purchasing choice and can affect our wellbeing. Lovingly detailed, researched and honed to deliver a specific intention, a logo contains a unique dynamic that sidesteps our conscious mind. We might not know why we prefer one product over another but the logo, designed to connect the heart of the brand to our own hearts, plays a vital part in our decision to buy. The power of symbols to sway us has been recognised throughout history. Found in caves and in Egyptian temples they are attributed with the strength to foretell and create the future, connect us with the divine and evoke emotions, from horror to ecstasy, at a glance. The new symbols we imbue with these awesome powers are our favourite brand logos. • Discover the unconscious effect of these modern symbols that thrust our most successful global corporations into the limelight and our lives. • Learn to make informed choices about brands. • Find out how a logo reflects the state of the brand and holds it to account. |
The date of the above remarks on a logo change, March 24, 2016,
suggests a review of a Log24 post from that date —
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In Memoriam
"From 1962 to 1969 Mr. Moore was Simon Templar . . . ."
— The New York Times online today
A related post — "Intruders for Mira" (Sept. 28, 2015).
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Monday, May 22, 2017
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Rota on Beauty
Tiptoe through the tulips with Rota and Erickson:
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Attempts have been made to string together beautiful mathematical results and to present them in books bearing such attractive titles as The One Hundred Most Beautiful Theorems of Mathematics. Such anthologies are seldom found on a mathematician’s bookshelf. The beauty of a theorem is best observed when the theorem is presented as the crown jewel within the context of a theory. — Gian-Carlo Rota in Indiscrete Thoughts |
See also Martin Erickson in this journal . . .
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Saturday, May 20, 2017
Arrival
"But the Work shall not be wholly lost:
For it will, as he believ’d, appear once more,
In a new & more perfect Edition,
Corrected and Amended
By the Author." — Benjamin Franklin
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The Ludicrous Extreme
From a review of the 2016 film "Arrival" —
"A seemingly off-hand reference to Abbott and Costello
is our gateway. In a movie as generally humorless as Arrival,
the jokes mean something. Ironically, it is Donnelly, not Banks,
who initiates the joke, naming the verbally inexpressive
Heptapod aliens after the loquacious Classical Hollywood
comedians. The squid-like aliens communicate via those beautiful,
cryptic images. Those signs, when thoroughly comprehended,
open the perceiver to a nonlinear conception of time; this is
Sapir-Whorf taken to the ludicrous extreme."
— Jordan Brower in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Further on in the review —
"Banks doesn’t fully understand the alien language, but she
knows it well enough to get by. This realization emerges
most evidently when Banks enters the alien ship and, floating
alongside Costello, converses with it in their picture-language.
She asks where Abbott is, and it responds — as presented
in subtitling — that Abbott 'is death process.'
'Death process' — dying — is not idiomatic English, and what
we see, written for us, is not a perfect translation but a
rendering of Banks’s understanding. This, it seems to me, is a
crucial moment marking the hard limit of a human mind,
working within the confines of human language to understand
an ultimately intractable xenolinguistic system."
For what may seem like an intractable xenolinguistic system to
those whose experience of mathematics is limited to portrayals
by Hollywood, see the previous post —
van Lint and Wilson Meet the Galois Tesseract.
The death process of van Lint occurred on Sept. 28, 2004.
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van Lint and Wilson Meet the Galois Tesseract*
Click image to enlarge.
The above 35 projective lines, within a 4×4 array —
The above 15 projective planes, within a 4×4 array (in white) —
* See Galois Tesseract in this journal.
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Friday, May 19, 2017
Heptapod Fluency at Yale
". . . riverrun, past Eve and Adam's . . . ."
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In the Service of Narrative
Quoted here on St. Stephen's Day, 2008 —
“Wayne C. Booth’s lifelong
study of the art of rhetoric
illuminated the means
by which authors seduce,
cajole and lie to their readers
in the service of narrative.”
— New York Times, Oct. 11, 2005
Booth was a native of American Fork, Utah.
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
Knock, Knock, Knockin’
Related material from April 20, 2017 —
A footnote from page 229 of Sydney Padua's April 21, 2015, book
on Lovelace and Babbage —
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Marquee Moon continues
Exit stage right, enter stage center, exit stage left —
A search for "Darkness Doubled" in this journal yields a link
to a post on "endgame art" which leads in turn to a post with
the following quotation —
"It is proposed that the two structures of grid and target
are the symbolic vehicles par excellence . . . ."
— Review of Rudolf Arnheim's The Power of the Center:
A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (U. of Calif. Press, 1982).
Review by David A. Pariser, Studies in Art Education , Vol. 24, No. 3
(1983), pp. 210-213.
"Darkness Doubled" is a phrase from a song titled "Marquee Moon."
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Bit Plot
From a May 15 review of a new book by Douglas Coupland, author of
the 1991 book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture .
"Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders:
they hoard space." — Douglas Coupland
The title of Coupland's new book suggests a review of Schmeikal
in this journal …
Coupland's above remark on hoarders suggests a look at
a wealthy California collector whom, were he not wealthy,
some might call a hoarder.
“I buy things because they strike an emotional bell,
they appeal to my curiosity, to the thrill of discovery
of the extraordinary in the ordinary,” Mr. Cotsen told
The Denver Post in 1998. “They appeal to my sense
of humor, and to my search for the beauty in simplicity.”
He added, “I decided I had a collection when there was
no more space to put anything.”
By the time he died at 88 on May 8 in Beverly Hills, Calif.,
Mr. Cotsen (pronounced COAT-zen) had donated about
half of the material in his collections to institutions like the
Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Princeton University
and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, N.M.
— Richard Sandomir in the online New York Times , May 17
Cotsen reportedly died at 88 on May 8.
See also this journal on that date —
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Monday, May 8, 2017
New Pinterest Board
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Arroyo
"Follow the Blood Arroyo to the place
where the snake lays its eggs."
— Westworld, Season 1, Episode 2,
air date October 9, 2016
"Googlaa pluplu." — Finnegans Wake
"Not far downstream was a dry channel
where the river had run once . . . ."
— Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
See also the previous post and posts tagged Riverrun.
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017
For Westworld’s Man in Black
From University of Chicago Press in 1984:
"Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida,
and others, Mark Taylor extends—and
goes well beyond—pioneering efforts. . . . "
—G. Douglas Atkins,
Philosophy and Literature
Update at noon on May 16 —
"Follow the Blood Arroyo to the place
where the snake lays its eggs."
— Westworld, Season 1, Episode 2,
air date October 9, 2016
This suggests a review of Derrida + Serpent
in this journal.
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Monday, May 15, 2017
For Penelope Reed Doob…
… who reportedly died on March 11 —
Posts now tagged Labyrinth for Penelope.
See also the previous post and this journal on the above date.
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Appropriation at MoMA
For example, Plato's diamond as an object to be transformed —
Versions of the transformed object —
See also The 4×4 Relativity Problem in this journal.
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Saturday, May 13, 2017
Thursday, May 11, 2017
In Memoriam
See also Chandrasekharan in a Log24 search for Weyl+Schema.
Update of 6:16 AM Friday, May 12, 2017 —
The phrase "smallest perfect universe" is from Burkard Polster (2001).
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Reopening the Tesseract
Dialogue from the film "Interstellar" —
Cooper: Did it work?
TARS: I think it might have.
Cooper: How do you know?
TARS: Because the bulk beings
are closing the tesseract.
Related material — "Bulk apperception"
in this journal, and …
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017
In the Park with Yin and Yang
In memory of an art dealer who
reportedly died on Sunday, May 7—
Decorations for a Cartoon Graveyard
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Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Art Space at Princeton
A recent book on mathematics and art
from Princeton University Press, with a
foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson —
Not to put too fine a point on it —
From an earlier post —
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Text and Context
Some context for the previous post, which was about
a new Art Space Pinterest board —
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Monday, May 8, 2017
New Pinterest Board
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Sunday, May 7, 2017
Art Space
Detail of an image in the previous post —
This suggests a review of a post on a work of art by fashion photographer
Peter Lindbergh, made when he was younger and known as "Sultan."
The balls in the foreground relate Sultan's work to my own.
Linguistic backstory —
The art space where the pieces by Talman and by Lindbergh
were displayed is Museum Tinguely in Basel.
As the previous post notes, the etymology of "glamour" (as in
fashion photography) has been linked to "grammar" (as in
George Steiner's Grammars of Creation ). A sculpture by
Tinguely (fancifully representing Heidegger) adorns one edition
of Grammars .
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Saturday, May 6, 2017
Requiem for a Magnate
The New York Times reports a Monday death —
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Talk Amongst Yourselves
A search for recent activity by the Liesl Schillinger of
the previous post yields …
Talk amongst yourselves.
Midrash for elitists —
The novel 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (see Bolaño in this journal
and Adam Kirsch in the above) and …
Matt Helm in Donald Hamilton's 1962 novel The Silencers —
"I cleaned up a little, went downstairs, and, rather than
get the pickup out of hock, paid sixty cents to have a taxi
take me to the international bridge. Two cents let me walk
across the Rio Grande into Mexico. The river bed was
almost dry. The usual skinny dark kids were playing their
usual incomprehensible games around the pools below
the bridge. Stepping off the south end of the span, I was
in a foreign country. Mexicans will tell you defensively that
Juarez isn't Mexico-that no border town is-but it certainly
isn't the United States of America, even though Avenida
Juarez, the street just south of the bridge, does bear a
certain resemblance to Coney Island. I brushed off a
purveyor of dirty pictures and shills for a couple of dirty
movie houses."
Midrash for populists —
The photo in the New York Times obituary
above is from the 1966 film based, very
loosely, on Donald Hamilton's The Silencers.
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Frame
Suggested by remarks in last night's link to posts tagged Swimmer —
"A professor is all-powerful, Gareth liked to tell his daughter,
he puts ‘a veritable frame around life,’ and ‘organizes the
unorganizable. Nimbly partitions it into modern and postmodern,
renaissance, baroque, primitivism, imperialism and so on. . . .'"
— From a review by Liesl Schillinger in the Aug. 13, 2006,
New York Times of a new novel by Marisha Pessl:
Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
"A veritable frame" —
"Nimbly partitions" —
See also partitioning in posts tagged Crimson Abyss.
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Friday, May 5, 2017
For the Gods of Mexico*
A swimmer who won Olympic gold in 1936 reportedly died today.
Related material from August 4, 2008 —
Jodie Foster and the
opening of the 1936 Olympics
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“Heraclitus…. says: ‘The ruler
— An Introduction to Metaphysics, |
Posts tagged Swimmer may or may not be relevant.
* See …
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Pre-Linguistic Thought
"… I know for sure that my best insights (those which
are not just routine calculations) are pre-linguistic, and
I struggle to put them into words . . . ."
See also "George Steiner" + Language in this journal.
A related figure —
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Thursday, May 4, 2017
Where Entertainment Is God
See a related obituary from Saint Michael's.
This is for a mathematics professor who reportedly died on March 13.
See as well this journal on that date and the night before.
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In Memory of Burton Watson
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017
The Game
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Bosch House
Continued from Music Box – The Theory (April 21)
in memory of jazz enthusiast Ann Sneed,
who reportedly died in Las Vegas at 87 on that date.
Hollywood homicide detective Harry Bosch at home.
See also Mother of Beauty (April 7, 2004).
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One Fell Shmoop
"Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis
vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent:
Sibylla ti theleis; respondebat illa: apothanein thelo."
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Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Image Albums
Pinterest boards uploaded to the new m759.net/piwigo —
Update of May 2 —
Update of May 3 —
Update of May 8 —
Art Space board created at Pinterest
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Monday, May 1, 2017
I added today a few mathematics images to my Pinterest account —
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Saturday, April 29, 2017
For the Church of Synchronology*
A book cover from Amazon.com —
See also this journal on the above date, September 27, 2016 —
Chomsky and Levi-Strauss in China,
Or: Philosophy for Jews.
Some other remarks related to the figure on the book cover —
Field Theology and Galois Window.
* See Synchronology in this journal.
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Friday, April 28, 2017
A Problem for Houston…
… And a memorable Houston lawyer who reportedly died today
at 90 at his home in Trinity, Texas —
"Da hats ein Eck . "
See as well Sunday Review and Clooney Omega in this journal.
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Art Space
From "Seize the Dia," a post of April 6, 2013 —
"The artists demanded space
in tune with their aesthetic."
— "The Dia Generation,"
by Michael Kimmelman
“I wanted space people could be involved in.”
— An artist who reportedly died yesterday
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Subsequent Fiascos
Prose style from this morning's online New York Times —
"Subsequent fiascos … confirmed that this elite
was too entrenched to be displaced by its failures
and too arrogant to learn from them."
… and from Paul Simon —
"The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls"
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A Generation Lost in Space
The title is from Don McLean's classic "American Pie."
A Finite Projective Space —
A Non-Finite Projective Space —
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As In :: A Sin
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Thursday, April 27, 2017
Partner, Anchor, Decompose
See also a figure from 2 AM ET April 26 …
" Partner, anchor, decompose. That's not math.
That's the plot to 'Silence of the Lambs.' "
— Greg Gutfeld, September 2014
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Road to Hell
An image in the previous post referred to something called
“universal logic,” touted in 2015 by the publisher Birkhäuser*
as a “new interdisciplinary field.”
From this journal on April 20 last year —
Universal Logic and the Road to Hell.
* See the webpage excerpted below.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Again
See also "Cornerstone" in this journal and …
A sidebar from a Google search today —
This suggests a review of posts now tagged Obelisk,
which include …
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About
From a post of March 16, 2017 —
"Bulk apperception" is defined in the Westworld script
as "basically, overall intelligence." The phrase is apparently
unique to Westworld.
These two words do, however, nearly occur together
in at least one book — Andrew Feffer's The Chicago
Pragmatists and American Progressivism :
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A Tale Unfolded
A sketch, adapted tonight from Girl Scouts of Palo Alto —
From the April 14 noon post High Concept —
From the April 14 3 AM post Hudson and Finite Geometry —
From the April 24 evening post The Trials of Device —
Note that Hudson’s 1905 “unfolding” of even and odd puts even on top of
the square array, but my own 2013 unfolding above puts even at its left.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Monday, April 24, 2017
In Memory of Robert M. Pirsig
A cover for his classic book is displayed in
this evening's New York Times obituary for Pirsig.
Related material in this journal —
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The Trials of Device
"A blank underlies the trials of device"
— Wallace Stevens, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" (1950)
A possible meaning for the phrase "the trials of device" —
See also Log24 posts mentioning a particular device, the pentagram .
For instance —
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Sunday, April 23, 2017
A Small Model Composition…
… A Scottish Play suggested by …
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A passage quoted here Friday night —
"The Hegel action is applied to understand creative processes
in two classical compositions — Beethoven’s Hammerklavier
Sonata op. 106, and Liszt’s Mephisto Walzer — but also to
the creation of a small model composition."
— From the abstract of "Hegel’s Conceptual
Group Action on Creative Dynamics in Music," by
Guerino Mazzola and Maria Mannone
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A news story from today about a death yesterday —
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An informative weblog post from Shakespeare's Birthday
(today's date, April 23) three years ago …
http://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com/
2014/04/go-waltzing-mephisto-with-me.html
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And by a Scottish herald in this weblog three years ago
on Shakespeare's Birthday —Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Requiem for a Herald
Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 8:48 PM
In memory of Peter Drummond-Murray, two readings:
Illustration —
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
Science Marches On
Connoisseurs of bullshit who enjoyed the previous post
might also enjoy the following:
The previous two posts introduced Mazzola's noxious combination of
category theory and Hegel. The current version (Rev. 254) of the above
nLab "Science of Logic" article, though not by Mazzola, displays this
combination in its full hideous splendor.
Some posts in this journal that might be viewed as leading up to
the original Sept. 2, 2012, "Science of Logic" article are now tagged
Death Warmed Over.
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Friday, April 21, 2017
Music Box — The Theory
For the music box of the title, see the previous post.
See also Mazzola on the Glass Bead Game
(Facebook date June 7, 2016)
and the Log24 post Symmetry (May 3, 2016).
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Music Box
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
Stone Logic
See also "Romancing the Omega" —
Related mathematics — Guitart in this journal —
See also Weyl + Palermo in this journal —
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Point 8777*
Or: Expanding the Spielraum, continued
Wikipedia on author Michael Connelly —
Connelly had planned on following his father’s early choice of
career in building construction and started out at the
University of Florida in Gainesville as a building construction major.
After earning grades that were lower than expected, Connelly went
to see Robert Altman’s film The Long Goodbye (1973) and was
enchanted by what he saw. The film, based on Raymond Chandler’s
1953 novel of the same name, inspired Connelly to want to become
a mystery writer. Connelly went home and read all of Chandler's
works featuring Philip Marlowe, a detective in Los Angeles during
the 1940s and ‘50s, and decided to switch majors to journalism with
a minor in creative writing.[4] He was a student of Harry Crews.
[See also …
https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/11/24/
the-teacher-michael-connelly-never-forgot/.]
A 2002 novel by Connelly — City of Bones .
Two scenes from a 2014 TV pilot based on the 2002 novel —
The "Bosch" pilot does not state the address, but its location in the
Hollywood Hills suggests a review of Heinlein Lottery in this journal.
"Bonedigger Bonedigger
Dogs in the moonlight"
— Paul Simon
* Title suggested by that of the previous post, "Point Zero."
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Point Zero
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Pocket Universe
I first encountered the title phrase, of more significance in art than
in science, yesterday in a review of a book by Sydney Padua —
"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell." — "Hotel California"
"Some cartoon graveyards are better than others." — Log24
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Dating Ada
See, for instance, this journal on Oct. 13, 2015, and Oct. 11, 2016.
See as well page 505 in the May 2017 Notices of the American
Mathematical Society (Volume 64, Number 5).
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At 64
"The teas were heaven . . . ." See also the previous post and
Washnitzer's Princeton obituary from yesterday.
Related material — Another mathematician's death, on April 4 at 64.
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Monday, April 17, 2017
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Risen?
In memory of a mathematician who
reportedly died at 64 on April 4
Part I: A review by that mathematician —
Part II: The mathematician's funeral —
"Funeral service will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, April 7, 2017 . . . ."
— See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dispatch/
obituary.aspx?n=David-Mark-Goss&pid=184946410
This journal at 1:37 p.m. ET on Friday, April 7, 2017 —
Related material:
The previous post and posts tagged The Gray Legacy.
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Art Space Paradigm Shift
This post’s title is from the tags of the previous post —
The title’s “shift” is in the combined concepts of …
Space and Number
From Finite Jest (May 27, 2012):
The books pictured above are From Discrete to Continuous ,
by Katherine Neal, and Geometrical Landscapes , by Amir Alexander.
For some details of the shift, see a Log24 search for Boole vs. Galois.
From a post found in that search —
“Benedict Cumberbatch Says
a Journey From Fact to Faith
Is at the Heart of Doctor Strange“
— io9 , July 29, 2016
” ‘This man comes from a binary universe
where it’s all about logic,’ the actor told us
at San Diego Comic-Con . . . .
‘And there’s a lot of humor in the collision
between Easter [ sic ] mysticism and
Western scientific, sort of logical binary.’ “
[Typo now corrected, except in a comment.]
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
Quanta Dating
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