A brief drama inspired by Peter J. Cameron's post today
on a March 4-8 combinatorics conference at
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton:
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Recommended Reading
for Hogwarts Students
on Devil’s Night (2005):
Click on the above for details.
In memory of an actor who in films played Bilbo Baggins,
but on the stage was most closely identified with works by
Harold Pinter, especially “The Homecoming.”
A search for Pinter in this journal yields, as well as the playwright,
some posts tagged The Pinterest Directive. These include . . .
Related image — The square and circle pictured here yesterday —
Or: Putting the Pinter in Pinterest
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From "A Poem for Pinter" Log24 on Oct. 13, 2005 The Guardian on Harold Pinter, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature: "Earlier this year, he announced his decision to retire from playwriting in favour of poetry," Michael Muskal in today's Los Angeles Times: "Pinter, 75, is known for his sparse and thin style as well as his etched characters whose crystal patter cuts through the mood like diamond drill bits." Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise (See Jan. 25): "'That old Jew gave me this here.' Egan looked at the diamond…. 'It's worth a whole lot of money– you can tell that just by looking– but it means something, I think. It's got a meaning, like.' 'Let's see,' Egan said, 'what would it mean?' He took hold of Pablo's hand cupping the stone and held his own hand under it. '"The jewel is in the lotus," perhaps that's what it means. The eternal in the temporal….'" |
See as well an image in a link target from today's noon post —
A sequel to the quotation here March 8 (Pinter Play)
of Joan Aiken's novel The Shadow Guests—
Supposing that one's shadow guests are
Rosenhain and Göpel (see March 18)…
Hans Freudenthal at Encyclopedia.com on Charles Hermite:
"In 1855 Hermite took advantage of Göpel’s and Rosenhain’s work
when he created his transformation theory (see below)."
"One of his invariant theory subjects was the fifth-degree equation,
to which he later applied elliptic functions.
Armed with the theory of invariants, Hermite returned to
Abelian functions. Meanwhile, the badly needed theta functions
of two arguments had been found, and Hermite could apply what
he had learned about quadratic forms to understanding the
transformation of the system of the four periods. Later, Hermite’s
1855 results became basic for the transformation theory of Abelian
functions as well as for Camille Jordan’s theory of 'Abelian' groups.
They also led to Herrnite’s own theory of the fifth-degree equation
and of the modular equations of elliptic functions. It was Hermite’s
merit to use ω rather than Jacobi’s q = eπi ω as an argument and to
prepare the present form of the theory of modular functions.
He again dealt with the number theory applications of his theory,
particularly with class number relations or quadratic forms.
His solution of the fifth-degree equation by elliptic functions
(analogous to that of third-degree equations by trigonometric functions)
was the basic problem of this period."
See also Hermite in The Catholic Encyclopedia.
University Diaries on March 22:
"An Intercultural Whatever professor at Florida Atlantic University…" (FAU).
An obituary in this afternoon's New York Times :
Related Log24 posts:
Pinter Play (March 8, about FAU) and a post
from the reported day of Gumperz's death.
Alan Cowell in the The New York Times ,
October 21, 2006—
"Mr. Pinter played the role of Krapp,
a 69-year-old man revisiting
a tape recording he had made at 39…."
See also a weblog post by a 69-year-old man
revisiting a drawing he had made at 39.
The revisiting:
On Guy Fawkes Day 2011,
a return to Guy Fawkes day 2005—
Contrapuntal Themes in a Shadowland.
The drawing:
A clearer version, from 1981, of the central object below —
For commentary on the original 1981 drawing, see
Diamond-Faceted: Transformations of the Rock.
(A link in that page to "an earlier note from 1981"
leads to remarks from exactly thirty years before
the 2011 post, made on another Guy Fawkes Day.)
For the scholars gathered at a graduate conference
today and tomorrow at Cambridge University* on
"Occultism, Magic, and the History of Art"—
Part I: Krapp
Click image for a 2006 New York Times story —
Part II: Hash
“There are two silences.
One when no word is spoken.
The other when perhaps a torrent
of language is being employed.”
Stille Nacht…
Pinter died on December 24, 2008:
Heilige Nacht…
Also on Christmas Eve, 2008
(“24/12/08 3:23 pm”):
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A Poem for Pinter
Oct. 13, 2005 The Guardian on Harold Pinter, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature: "Earlier this year, he announced his decision to retire from playwriting in favour of poetry," Michael Muskal in today's Los Angeles Times: "Pinter, 75, is known for his sparse and thin style as well as his etched characters whose crystal patter cuts through the mood like diamond drill bits." Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise (See Jan. 25): "'That old Jew gave me this here.' Egan looked at the diamond…. 'It's worth a whole lot of money– you can tell that just by looking– but it means something, I think. It's got a meaning, like.'
'Let's see,' Egan said, 'what would it mean?' He took hold of Pablo's hand cupping the stone and held his own hand under it. '"The jewel is in the lotus," perhaps that's what it means. The eternal in the temporal….'"
"Modal logic was originally developed to investigate logic under the modes of necessary and possible truth. The words 'necessary' and 'possible' are called modal connectives, or modalities. A modality is a word that when applied to a statement indicates when, where, how, or under what circumstances the statement may be true. In terms of notation, it is common to use a box [] for the modality 'necessary' and a diamond <> for the modality 'possible.'"
Commentary:
"Waka" also means Japanese poem or Maori canoe. (For instance, this Japanese poem and this Maori canoe.)
For a meditation on "bang splat," see Sept. 25-29. For the meaning of "tick tick," see Emily Dickinson on "degreeless noon." "Hash," of course, signifies "checkmate." (See previous three entries.) |
For language more suited to
the year's most holy day, see
this year's Yom Kippur entry,
from October 2.
That was also the day of the
Amish school killings in
Pennsylvania and the day that
mathematician Paul Halmos died.
For more on the former, see
Death in Two Seconds.
For more on the latter, see
The Halmos Tombstone.
A Poem for Pinter
The Guardian on Harold Pinter, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature:
"Earlier this year, he announced his decision to retire from playwriting in favour of poetry,"
Michael Muskal in today's Los Angeles Times:
"Pinter, 75, is known for his sparse and thin style as well as his etched characters whose crystal patter cuts through the mood like diamond drill bits."
Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise (See Jan. 25):
"'That old Jew gave me this here.' Egan looked at the diamond…. 'It's worth a whole lot of money– you can tell that just by looking– but it means something, I think. It's got a meaning, like.'
'Let's see,' Egan said, 'what would it mean?' He took hold of Pablo's hand cupping the stone and held his own hand under it. '"The jewel is in the lotus," perhaps that's what it means. The eternal in the temporal….'"
"Modal logic was originally developed to investigate logic under the modes of necessary and possible truth. The words 'necessary' and 'possible' are called modal connectives , or modalities . A modality is a word that when applied to a statement indicates when, where, how, or under what circumstances the statement may be true. In terms of notation, it is common to use a box [] for the modality 'necessary' and a diamond <> for the modality 'possible.'"
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A Poem for Pinter
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Commentary:
"Waka" also means Japanese poem or Maori canoe.
(For instance, this Japanese poem and this Maori canoe.)
For a meditation on "bang splat," see Sept. 25-29.
For the meaning of "tick tick," see Emily Dickinson on "degreeless noon."
"Hash," of course, signifies "checkmate." (See previous three entries.)
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