(The title refers to Log24 posts now tagged Fire Temple.)
In memory of a New Yorker cartoonist who
reportedly died at 97 on October 3, 2019 …
"Read something that means something."
— New Yorker advertising slogan
From posts tagged Tetrahedron vs. Square —
This journal on October 3 —
"There is such a thing as a 4-set."
— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.
Illustration (central detail a from the above tetrahedral figure) —
(For Harlan Kane)
"Once Mr. Overbye identifies a story, he said, the work is
in putting it in terms people can understand. 'Metaphors
are very important to the way I write,' he said. The results
are vivid descriptions that surpass mere translation."
— Raillan Brooks in The New York Times on a Times
science writer, October 17, 2017. Also on that date —
"There is such a thing as a 4-set."
— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.
See as well The Black List (Log24, September 27).
The previous post suggests a review of the saying
"There is such a thing as a 4-set."
* Title of a 1959 musical
In memory of Rod Taylor, who
reportedly died at 84 on Wednesday,
the seventh day of 2015 —
Rivka Galchen, in a piece mentioned here in June 2010—
On Borges: Imagining the Unwritten Book
"Think of it this way: there is a vast unwritten book that the heart reacts to, that it races and skips in response to, that it believes in. But it’s the heart’s belief in that vast unwritten book that brought the book into existence; what appears to be exclusively a response (the heart responding to the book) is, in fact, also a conjuring (the heart inventing the book to which it so desperately wishes to respond)."
Related fictions
Galchen's "The Region of Unlikeness" (New Yorker , March 24, 2008)
Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life." A film adaptation is to star Amy Adams.
… and non-fiction
"There is such a thing as a 4-set." — January 31, 2012
For remarks related by logic, see the square-triangle theorem.
For remarks related by synchronicity, see Log24 on
the above publication date, June 15, 2010.
According to Google (and Soifer's page xix), Soifer wants to captivate
young readers.
Whether young readers should be captivated is open to question.
"There is such a thing as a 4-set."
Update of 9:48 the same morning—
Amazon.com says Soifer's book was published not on June 15, but on
June 29 , 2010
(St. Peter's Day).
|
"… a finite set with n elements Tesseract formed from a 4-set—
The same 16 subsets or points can
"There is such a thing as a 4-set." |
Update of August 12, 2012:
Figures like the above, with adjacent vertices differing in only one coordinate,
appear in a 1950 paper of H. S. M. Coxeter—
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