See also Norbert Wiener in this journal and …
Related material for the Church of Synchronology —
The Log24 post on the above New York Times death date.
Monday, November 13, 2017
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
In Nomine Patris
"Robert Fano, an electrical engineer who was instrumental
in creating a world of instantly responsive computers, died
on July 13 in Naples, Fla. He was 98."
— John Markoff in this evening's online New York Times
"Fano's father was the mathematician Gino Fano . . . ."
A mnemonic I associate with the Fano plane — "Seven is Heaven . . . ."
Log24 on the date of Robert Fano's death —
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Sunday, October 5, 2014
In Nomine Patris
I.e., Neugebauer (See The Source, 9 PM Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014.)
See also Alms for Oblivion (January 22, 2006).
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
In Nomine Patris
In memory of Pete Postlethwaite, who played father figures in
"In the Name of the Father" and in "Inception."
He died on January 2, 2011.
"And I looked and behold: a pale horse" — Johnny Cash
This journal on the day of Postlethwaite's death—
For somewhat deeper discussions see "Blackburn+universals" in this journal.
"It is arguable that this is always the deepest, most profound problem of philosophy.”
– Simon Blackburn, Think (Oxford, 1999)
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Monday, April 26, 2021
A Memoir of Her Time
Alex Traub in today’s online New York Times —
“Helen Weaver, who fell in love with Jack Kerouac months before
‘On the Road’ rocketed him into the literary stratosphere, and who
53 years later made a record of their romance in an enduring book
of her own, died on April 13 at her home in Woodstock, N.Y.
She was 89.”
“The Beat rebel charmed Ms. Weaver with gentleness.
He agreed to attend a dinner party with Ms. Weaver’s
parents in New Milford, Conn., and began the evening
by asking whether they believed in God.”
“Helen Hemenway Weaver was born on June 18, 1931,
in Madison, Wis. Her father, Warren, was chairman of
the mathematics department at the University of
Wisconsin, and her mother, Mary (Hemenway) Weaver,
was a schoolteacher and later a homemaker.
Helen grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y., where the family had
moved when her father began working as an executive at
the Rockefeller Foundation and other nonprofit organizations.”
In Nomine Patris
The Times‘s Warren link above leads to an obituary of Warren Weaver:
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He was the author, or co‐author, of books ranging from works on pure science during his early career to “Lady Luck,” a popular discussion of the theory of probability that sold widely in paperback. Wrote About ‘Alice’ Among his other books was “Alice in Many Tongues,” which dealt with foreign translations of “Alice in Wonderland.” He had the largest collection of the writing of Lewis Carroll, the author of “Alice,” now owned by the University of Texas. |
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019
RIP
"Elmore Rual 'Rip' Torn Jr. (February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019)
was an American actor, voice artist … Torn was born in
Temple, Texas,
on February 6, 1931, the son of Elmore Rual "Tiger" Torn Sr. and
Thelma Mary Torn (née Spacek)."
For the Church of Synchronology —
The above photo was reportedly taken on March 10, 2011.
An image from this journal on that date —
Found in translation — See "Ex Fano " in this journal
and the Fano post "In Nomine Patris."
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Saturday, January 6, 2018
Yale News
The Yale of the title is not the university, but rather the
mathematician Paul B. Yale. Yale's illustration of the Fano
plane is below.
A different illustration from a mathematician named Greenberg —
This illustration of the ominous phrase "line at infinity"
may serve as a sort of Deathly Hallows for Greenberg.
According to the AMS website yesterday, he died on
December 12, 2017:
A search of this journal for Greenberg yields no mention of
the dead mathematician, but does yield some remarks
on art that are pehaps less bleak than the above illustration.
For instance —
Art adapted from the Google search screen. Discuss.
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Monday, January 2, 2017
Sitcom Theology
"William Christopher, best known for playing Father Mulcahy
on the hit sitcom M*A*S*H , died Saturday [Dec. 31, 2016] of
lung cancer, his agent confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
He was 84.
Christopher died at his home in Pasadena, with his wife by
his bedside, at 5:10 a.m. on New Year's Eve, according to a
statement from his agent."
— 5:59 PM PST 12/31/2016 by Meena Jang
Image reshown in this journal on the midnight (Eastern time)
preceding Christopher's death —
Related material —
From a Log24 search for "Deathly Hallows" —
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Mathematics
The Fano plane block design |
Magic
The Deathly Hallows symbol— |
Those who prefer Latin with their theology
may search this journal for "In Nomine Patris."
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Friday, December 16, 2016
Memory, History, Geometry
These are Rothko's Swamps .
See a Log24 search for related meditations.
For all three topics combined, see Coxeter —
" There is a pleasantly discursive treatment
of Pontius Pilate’s unanswered question
‘What is truth?’ "
— Coxeter, 1987, introduction to Trudeau’s
The Non-Euclidean Revolution
Update of 10 AM ET — Related material, with an elementary example:
Posts tagged "Defining Form." The example —
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Monday, October 6, 2014
Reviews
From the MacTutor biography of Otto Neugebauer:
“… two projects which would be among the most important
contributions anyone has made to mathematics. He persuaded
Springer-Verlag to publish a journal reviewing all mathematical
publications, which would complement their reviewing journals
in other topics. In 1931 the first issue of Zentralblatt für Matematik
appeared, edited by Neugebauer.” [Mathematical Reviews was
the other project.]
Neugebauer appeared in Sunday morning’s post In Nomine Patris .
A review from Zentralblatt appeared in the Story Creep link from
this morning’s post Mysterious Correspondences.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Wednesday October 6, 2004
3:17:20 PM
Spin the Numbers
IN NOMINE PATRIS…
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Today’s midday |
ET FILII…
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2/24 Log24.net entry: |
ET SPIRITUS SANCTI…
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“Heraclitus…. says:
‘The ruler whose prophecy
occurs at Delphi
oute legei oute kryptei,
neither gathers nor hides,
alla semainei, but gives hints.'”
— An Introduction to Metaphysics,
by Martin Heidegger,
Yale University Press paperback,
1959, p. 170
“The lord whose oracle is in Delphi
neither indicates clearly nor conceals,
but gives a sign.”
— Adolf Holl, The Left Hand of God,
Doubleday, 1998, p. 50
AMEN.
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