See as well a search for Gray Space in this journal.
Related material: The Schwartz Omega .
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
Monday, December 2, 2019
Gray Space
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Monday, March 13, 2017
Gray Space
Image in Log24 from the date of the architecture writer's death —
See also the post Gray Space of Palm Sunday, 2014.
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Monday, April 27, 2015
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Gray Space
Or: Three Shades of Gray
(Continued from previous Gray Space posts.)
Click the above image for some related mathematics.
Those who prefer “magic” approaches to mathematics*
may consult the works of Robert J. Stewart and his
mentor William G. Gray.
Robert J. Stewart (left) and a pentagram photo posted yesterday evening
by Oslo artist Josefine Lyche. See also Lyche in this journal.
* See the April 2014 banners displayed at the websites
of the American Mathematical Society and of the
Mathematical Association of America, as well as
a mathematician’s remarks linked to here last evening.
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Gray Space, by Wagner
(Orlin Wagner/Associated Press) – A vehicle tops a hill along
U.S. Route 56 as a severe thunderstorm moves through the area
near Baldwin City, Kansas, on Sunday, April 27, 2014.
See a related news story.
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Monday, April 21, 2014
Annals of Gray Space*
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
Gray Space
(Continued from Palm Sunday)
From Richard Wilbur’s “Walking to Sleep” —
Try to remember this: what you project
Is what you will perceive; what you perceive
With any passion, be it love or terror,
May take on whims and powers of its own.
Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection
Will serve you best, unless you overdo it,
Watching your step too narrowly, refusing
To specify a world, shrinking your purview
To a tight vision of your inching shoes—
Which may, as soon you come to think, be crossing
An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.
What you must manage is to bring to mind
A landscape not worth looking at, some bleak
Champaign at dead November’s end, its grass
As dry as lichen, and its lichens grey….
See also —
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Sunday, April 13, 2014
Gray Space
Art Wars view —
image from a post at noon on Saturday, April 12:
Kansas City view:
Review of Seeing Gray , a book by pastor Adam Hamilton
of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection
in Leawood, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City—
“Adam Hamilton invites us to soulful gray space
between polarities, glorious gray space that is holy,
mysterious, complex, and true. Let us find within
our spirits the courage and humility to live and learn
in this faithful space, to see gray, to discern a more
excellent way.”
—Review by United Methodist Bishop Hope Morgan Ward
The above quotation was suggested by the following from today’s
online Kansas City Star :
“Two of the victims were 14-year-old Reat Griffin Underwood
and his grandfather, William Lewis Corporon, who attended the
United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood.
The Rev. Adam Hamilton, the church’s senior pastor, shared
the news with church members at the beginning of the evening
Palm Sunday service.”
Update of 10:48 PM — A related photo:
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Death Warmed Over
In memory of the author of My Time in Space * —
Tim Robinson, who reportedly died on April 3 —
See also an image from a Log24 post, Gray Space —
Related material from Robinson’s reported date of death —
* First edition, hardcover, Lilliput Press, Ireland, April 1, 2001.
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Monday, December 2, 2019
Aesthetics at Harvard
"What the piece of art is about is the gray space in the middle."
— David Bowie, as quoted in the above Crimson piece.
Bowie's "gray space" is the space between the art and the beholder.
I prefer the gray space in the following figure —
Context: The Trinity Stone (Log24, June 4, 2018).
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Sunday, December 1, 2019
Space Song
From this journal on the above date — April 13, 2014 (Gray Space) —
Review of Seeing Gray , a book by pastor Adam Hamilton
of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection
in Leawood, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City—
“Adam Hamilton invites us to soulful gray space
between polarities, glorious gray space that is holy,
mysterious, complex, and true. Let us find within
our spirits the courage and humility to live and learn
in this faithful space, to see gray, to discern a more
excellent way.”
—Review by United Methodist Bishop Hope Morgan Ward
The above flashback was suggested by CBS Sunday Morning today —
See also Romanesque in this journal.
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Monday, April 18, 2016
A Problem
(Continued, in memory of the late meteorologist William Gray,
from August 10, 2010, and from April 16, 2016.)
For some backstory, see Huàn, the Flood and Impact Award.
"… Mathematics may be art, but to the general public
it is a black art, more akin to magic and mystery."
— Sir Michael Atiyah, "The Art of Mathematics"
in the AMS Notices , January 2010, quoted in
Log24 on April 4, 2016.
Related material: Gray Space and …
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Monday, March 2, 2015
Shades of Grey (1949)
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Death in Mathmagic Land
"It was our old friend Pythagoras who discovered
that the pentagram was full of mathematics."
— Narrator, "Donald in Mathmagic Land," Disney, 1959
… and it was Peter J. Cameron who discovered that
mathematics was full of pentagrams.
From Log24 on May 3: Gray Space —
Robert J. Stewart (left) and a pentagram photo posted May 2
by Oslo artist Josefine Lyche. See also Lyche in this journal.
From Log24 on May 13: An Artist's Memorial —
The death mentioned in the above May 13 post occurred on
May 12, the date of a scheduled Black Mass at Harvard.
Related material:
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Hymn
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Sunday, April 27, 2014
Sunday School
Galois and Abel vs. Rubik
"Abel was done to death by poverty, Galois by stupidity.
In all the history of science there is no completer example
of the triumph of crass stupidity…."
— Eric Temple Bell, Men of Mathematics
Gray Space (Continued)
… For The Church of Plan 9.
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Thursday, April 17, 2014
Thursday with the Nashes
“For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.” — Gravity’s Rainbow
“I don’t write exclusively on Jewish themes or about Jewish characters.
My collection of short stories, Strange Attractors , contained nine pieces,
five of which were, to some degree, Jewish, and this ratio has provided me
with a precise mathematical answer (for me, still the best kind of answer)
to the question of whether I am a Jewish writer. I am five-ninths a Jewish writer.”
— Rebecca Goldstein, “Against Logic”
Midrashim for Rebecca:
The Diamond Theory vs. the Story Theory (of truth)
Story Theory and the Number of the Beast
The Palm Sunday post “Gray Space”
For those who prefer the diamond theory of truth,
a “precise mathematical” view of a Gray code —
For those who prefer the story theory of truth,
Thursday with the Nashes —
The actors who portrayed Mr. and Mrs. John Nash in
‘A Beautiful Mind’ now portray Mr. and Mrs. Noah…
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Wednesday May 24, 2006
Dark Lady
Today is the feast of St. Sarah,
patron saint of the Gypsies.
In her honor, as well as that of
Bob Dylan and Rosanne Cash,
whose birthdays are today,
here are a picture and
two songs.
(Click to see the larger original,
a photo by Michael Trezzi)
A song for Rosanne Cash:
A song for Bob Dylan:
Curtain up, light the lights,
You got nothin’ to hit
but the heights!
(The original cast album
of “Gypsy” was recorded
on St. Sarah’s Day, 1959.)
(The photo was found
during a search
for the phrase
“great gray space.”
See the review
by John Updike
linked to in yesterday’s
Art Wars entry.)
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