The tesseract in last night's post Game Theory
suggests a search in Log24 for "Jewel of Odin."
See also Trinkets.
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Jewel of Odin
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
For Odin’s Day*
(Mathematics and Narrative, continued)
| "My dad has a great expression," Steve Sabol told USA TODAY Sports last year. "He always says, 'Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me the truth, and I believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.' " |
Fact—
Truth—
An art gallery in Oslo is exhibiting a tesseract.
Story—
The Jewel of Odin's Treasure Room
* I.e., Wednesday. For some apt Nordic spirit,
see Odin's Day 2012 Trailer.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Mathematics and Narrative (continued)
Princeton University Press on a book it will publish in March—
Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative
"Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier— 'Don't disturb my circles'— words that seem to refer to two radically different concerns: that of the practical person living in the concrete world of reality, and that of the theoretician lost in a world of abstraction. Stories and theorems are, in a sense, the natural languages of these two worlds–stories representing the way we act and interact, and theorems giving us pure thought, distilled from the hustle and bustle of reality. Yet, though the voices of stories and theorems seem totally different, they share profound connections and similarities."
Timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — Norway, March 1942—
"The Red Skull finds the Tesseract, a cube of strange power,
said to be the jewel of Odin’s treasure room, in Tonsberg Norway.
(Captain America: The First Avenger)"
Tesseracts Disturbed — (Click to enlarge)
Detail of Tesseracts Disturbed —
Narrative of the detail—
See Tesseract in this journal and Norway, May 2010—
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
First Lady
Betty Skelton, "the First Lady of Firsts," died on the last day of August.
From this journal on August thirty-first—
"The Tesseract was the jewel of Odin's treasure room."
Hugo Weaving also played Agent Smith
in The Matrix Trilogy .
For Cynthia Zarin, biographer of Madeleine L'Engle—
"There is such a thing as a tesseract."
— A Wrinkle in Time
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
Boundary (continued*)
It is now midnight. Yesterday was Odin's Day. Today is Thor's Day.
From a weblog post on Captain America and Thor—
"While all this [Captain America] is happening an SS officer, Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving), has found a religious artefact called the Tesseract which Schmidt describes as 'the jewel of Odin’s treasure room,' linking it in with the Thor storyline."
— That's Entertainment weblog, August 14, 2011
From Wallace Stevens, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," Canto III—
The point of vision and desire are the same.
It is to the hero of midnight that we pray
On a hill of stones to make beau mont thereof.
Captain America opened in the United States on Friday, July 22, 2011.
Thor opened in the United States on Friday, May 6, 2011.
"There is such a thing as a tesseract." —A Wrinkle in Time
* Continued from August 30.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Odin’s Day
Today is Wednesday.
O.E. Wodnesdæg "Woden's day," a Gmc. loan-translation of L. dies Mercurii "day of Mercury" (cf. O.N. Oðinsdagr , Swed. Onsdag , O.Fris. Wonsdei , M.Du. Wudensdach ). For Woden , see Odin . — Online Etymology Dictionary
Above: Anthony Hopkins as Odin in the 2011 film "Thor"
Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt in the related 2011 film "Captain America"—
"The Tesseract* was the jewel of Odin's treasure room."
Weaving also played Agent Smith in The Matrix Trilogy.
The figure at the top in the circle of 13** "Thor" characters above is Agent Coulson.
"I think I'm lucky that they found out they need somebody who's connected to the real world to help bring these characters all together."
— Clark Gregg, who plays Agent Coulson in "Thor," at UGO.com
For another circle of 13, see the Crystal Skull film implicitly referenced in the Bright Star link from Abel Prize (Friday, Aug. 26, 2011)—
Today's New York Times has a quote about a former mathematician who died on that day (Friday, Aug. 26, 2011)—
"He treated it like a puzzle."
Sometimes that's the best you can do.
* See also tesseract in this journal.
** For a different arrangement of 13 things, see the cube's 13 axes in this journal.
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