Related narrative: Bosch by Snaith . See also . . .
Neil Welliver, great American painter, father of Titus Welliver
Titus Welliver Says "Losing His Way" Led Him Back to Painting
Monday, May 1, 2023
Sunday, June 18, 2023
“Four Is a Door” — Mnemonic Rhyme*
Earlier posts have mentioned a British version of my work.
It currently appears among many other images at . . .
https://www.bsswebsite.me.uk/Puzzlewebsite/for-puzzlers.html —
Related cinema for Hogwarts fans —
* The late John Nash might prefer the version "For Isadore."
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Dust in the Wind
See posts tagged "The Next Level."
Perhaps Isadore Singer now has a clue . . .
See his phrases "manic as hell" and "pregnant as hell."
See also Illinois Beltane.
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
Continuity
Actually, Dirac “bridged math and physics” much earlier —
“Spinors, which are a kind of square root of vectors, had been introduced
in algebra and also in physics as part of Paul Dirac’s theory of the electron.
A spin structure on a manifold allows such square roots to exist.”
— Quanta Magazine today, article by Daniel S. Freed
See The Eddington Song and . . .
Poetic paraphrase —
“How can we tell the singer from the song?”
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Monday, February 15, 2021
Philosophy for Emma Stone
From a post of August 30, 2015 —
“… recall the words of author Norman Mailer
that summarized his Harvard education —
‘At times, bullshit can only be countered
with superior bullshit.’ “
And at times, non-bullshit is required.
BS from The New York Times Friday on the mathematical fields
known as topology and analysis in the 1960s —
“The two fields seemed to be nearly irremediably divided,
because topology twists objects around, and analysis
needs them to be rigid.”
Some less ignorant remarks from 1986:
The above Gauss-Bonnet theorem (ca. 1848) is explained in a talk titled
“Analysis Meets Topology” labeled with the above Emma Stone date —
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Saturday, February 13, 2021
Bullshit Studies . . .
Background reading — Math’s Big Lies and, more generally, Mazur.
Related news for fans of Language Games —
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Friday, February 12, 2021
What I Mean . . .
The title is adapted from a recent book by Joan Didion.
That book now appears among others in my Kindle library —
A Midrash for Singer
Vide "Bereshit" in Wikipedia and in this journal.
Related material —
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Friday, January 11, 2019
Atiyah at Oslo
Photo caption for the obituary below —
"Michael Atiyah, center, and Isadore M. Singer receive the Abel Award
from Norway’s King Harald in Oslo in 2004…" Credit: Knut Falch,
SCANPIX/Associated Press
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