"When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead . . . ."
This book was not in the original novel, and its title is plagiarized.
Blame screenwriter Scott Frank, not Gambit author Walter Tevis.
Friday, October 18, 2024
Megalopolis Revisited:
Steven Strogatz as “Harmonius”
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Steven Strogatz as “Harmonius”
Steven Strogatz as “Harmonius”
Friday, April 12, 2024
The Gambit Plan
Citation — Lattanzio, Ryan (December 7, 2020). "After 'Queen's Gambit,'
Anya Taylor-Joy and Scott Frank Reuniting for Nabokov Adaptation".
IndieWire. — Wikipedia
Thanks for the warning.
See as well Scott Frank on chessboard space.
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Monday, November 29, 2021
Apophenia for Woit
Peter Woit is quoted in the previous post as saying that
"Deluding oneself by seeing deep connections
in unrelated events is a common human problem."
Namely . . .
The term occurred in a recent miniseries, "The Queen's Gambit,"
in dialogue by screenwriter Scott Frank. "Apophenia" is not in the
book of the same title, by the much better writer Walter Tevis.
The original version of the fictional LIFE Magazine interview —
The version by Scott Frank —
As for the phrase "an entire world of just 64 squares," also not in the book,
some mathematicians may recall the definition of impolite numbers .
The reader may supply his or her own impolite commentary.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Women in Mathematics
This book was not in the original novel, and its title is plagiarized.
Blame screenwriter Scott Frank, not Gambit author Walter Tevis.
Related material:
The previous post, and Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy
in The Witch: A New England Folktale (2015).
See as well, from the late-October Strogatz date above —
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