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Friday, April 13, 2018

Mathmagic Land

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:45 pm

Continued from yesterday.

From Log24 on July 24, 2014

Later . . .

"Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?"

Manil Suri?

See also The Abacus Conundrum.

Friday, May 22, 2015

Mathmagic Land

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Donald Duck with Pythagorean pentagram on hand

Donald in Mathmagic Land

Manly P. Hall

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Death in Mathmagic Land

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:29 am

(Continued from May 14, 2014.)

See also consciousness growth and the previous post.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Death in Mathmagic Land

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:28 pm

"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:

Friday, August 9, 2019

For Wright State University

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:31 am

That university, in Dayton, Ohio, appeared in the previous post.

A curious recent wardrobe choice in Dayton suggests a review
of posts tagged Mathmagic Land.

Friday, April 13, 2018

Strahlenkreis*

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:23 pm

Or:  A Magic Circle for Penny 

The subtitle was suggested by the character Penny
in today's post on Mathmagic Land.

* Ray-circle. See an image search.

Saturday, February 24, 2018

The Ugly Duck

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 7:11 pm

"What of the night
That lights and dims the stars?
Do you know, Hans Christian,
Now that you see the night?"

— The concluding lines of
"Sonatina to Hans Christian,"
by Wallace Stevens
(in Harmonium  (second edition, 1931))

From "Mathmagic Land" (May 22, 2015)

Donald Duck with Pythagorean pentagram on hand

Donald in Mathmagic Land

From "The Trials of Device" (April 24, 2017)

Wittgenstein's pentagram and 4x4 'counting-pattern'

Pentagon with pentagram    

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Colorful Tales

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:50 pm

See also the Log24 post from May 18,
the date of Eric Caidin's reported death,
as well as Hexagram 50 and May 14, 2014—
Death in Mathmagic Land.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Pythagorean Selfie

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:01 pm

“Rarely is a TV show as brilliant and as terrible as Selfie .”

Kevin Fallon on a new ABC TV show that starts tonight at 8 PM ET

A recent selfie from Josefine Lyche’s Instagram page:

For some remarks related to Lyche’s pentagram, see
Lyche + Mathmagic* and also yesterday’s Michaelmas Mystery.

In today’s previous post, the late Harvey Cohn posed a question that
he said might have been asked by Pythagoras:

“It is an elementary observation that an integral right triangle
has an even area. Suppose the hypotenuse is prime.

Q.  How do we determine from the prime value of the hypotenuse
when the area is divisible by 4, 8, 16, or any higher power of 2?

A.  We use class fields constructed by means of transcendental
functions, of course!”

— From the preface to Introduction to the Construction of Class Fields ,
by Harvey Cohn (Cambridge University Press, 1985)

Illustration:

For a related song, see Prime Suspect (Dec. 13, 2007).

Footnote of 12:14 AM Oct. 1, 2014 —

* That search yields a link to…

This Lyche webpage’s pentagram  indicates an interest in Disney rather than
in SatanismOther Lyche webpages have been less reassuring.

Related material — Posts tagged Elegantly Packaged.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Two -Year College

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:45 am

See last night’s pentagram photo and a post from May 13, 2012.

That post links to a little-known video of a 1972 film.
A speech from the film was used by Oslo artist Josefine Lyche as a
voice-over in her  2011 golden-ratio video (with pentagrams) that she
exhibited along with a large, wall-filling copy of some of my own work.
The speech (see video below) is clearly nonsense.

The patterns* Lyche copied are not.

“Who are you, anyway?” 

— Question at 00:41 of 15:00, Rainbow Bridge (Part 5 of 9)
at YouTube, addressed to Baron Bingen as “Mr. Rabbit”

* Patterns exhibited again later, apparently without the Lyche pentagram video.
It turns out, by the way, that Lyche created that video by superimposing
audio from the above “Rainbow Bridge” film onto a section of Disney’s 1959
Donald in Mathmagic Land” (see 7:17 to 8:57 of the 27:33 Disney video).

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