Friday, April 29, 2022
“Welcome to the Garden Club …”
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Monday, March 1, 2021
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Bosch Day at the Prado
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Sunday, July 28, 2019
Review
From a news article featured on the American Mathematical Society
home page today —
A joint Vietnam-USA mathematical meeting in Vietnam on
June 10-13, 2019:
This journal on June 12, 2019:
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
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See also the Twentieth of May, 2008 —
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Saturday, February 16, 2019
“Always with a little humor” — Dr. Yen Lo
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Saturday May 24, 2008
Time After Time
From the five entries ending
on St. Bridget's Day, 2008:
Dana R. Wright on James Edwin Loder, Jr.—
"At his memorial service his daughter Tami told the story of 'little Jimmy,' whose kindergarten teacher recognized a special quality of mind that set him apart. 'Every day we read a story, and after the story is over, Jimmy gets up and wants to tell us what the story means.'"
"I confess I do not believe in time."
— Nabokov, Speak, Memory
From May 20:
"Welcome to the
Garden Club, Pilgrim."
Related material:
Primitive Roots
and a video from
Perth, Australia:
and a video from
Perth, Australia:
"The drum beats out of time"
— Song lyric, Cyndi Lauper
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Tuesday May 20, 2008
The China Candidate
In honor of the 100th birthday of actor James Stewart,
Turner Classic Movies is now showing
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
In light of an ABC News story tonight,
Report: U.S. Soldiers Did 'Dirty Work' for Chinese Interrogators,
the following film seems more relevant:
Welcome to the Garden Club, Pilgrim
Related material:
The Dictatorship of Talent, by David Brooks
in The New York Times of December 4, 2007—
"When you talk to Americans, you find that they have all these weird notions about Chinese communism. You try to tell them that China isn’t a communist country anymore. It’s got a different system: meritocratic paternalism. You joke: Imagine the Ivy League taking over the shell of the Communist Party and deciding not to change the name. Imagine the Harvard Alumni Association with an army."
— and Harvard mathematician
See also Sylvia Nasar's 2006 New Yorker article on Yau
and the screenplay of The Manchurian Candidate:
A long pause. Finally, Yen Lo laughs. YEN LO With humor, my dear Zilkov. Always with a little humor.