Thursday, October 31, 2024
Text and Context
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Text and Context: “A Multidimensional Crisis”
"Academia seems to be in the grip of a multidimensional crisis
that goes beyond ideology, and also beyond Harvard."
— A. O. Scott in The New York Times today
See Dimensions and Multidimensional in this journal.
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Text and Context: The Epiphany Shibboleth
The epigraph to Chapter 2 of Category Theory in Context by Emily Riehl —
[Maz16] Barry Mazur. Thinking about Grothendieck.
Notices of the AMS, 63(4):404–405, 2016.
The above epigraph in context, in a paper dated
January 6, 2016 (Epiphany) —
Also on Epiphany 2016 —
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
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Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Text and Context
Text —
"A field is perhaps the simplest algebraic structure we can invent."
— Hermann Weyl, 1952
Context —
See also yesterday's Personalized Book Search.
Full text of Symmetry – Internet Archive — https://archive.org/details/Symmetry_482
A field is perhaps the simplest algebraic 143 structure |
From a Log24 search for Mathematics+Nutshell —
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Text and Context
Some context for the previous post, which was about
a new Art Space Pinterest board —
Monday, August 3, 2015
Text and Context*
"The ORCID organization offers an open and
independent registry intended to be the de facto
standard for contributor identification in research
and academic publishing. On 16 October 2012,
ORCID launched its registry services… and
started issuing user identifiers." — Wikipedia
This journal on the above date —
A more recent identifier —
Related material —
See also the recent posts Ein Kampf and Symplectic.
* Continued.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Text and Context
Perhaps the best obituary for the late Morris Philipson
(see Nov. 10) is this text, by writer W.P. Norton
(not to be confused with the publishing firm W.W. Norton).
For the text in context, see a screenshot of the Norton
weblog (which was very slow to load this morning).
The Blogspot loading logo that did appear at Norton's
weblog suggests the following image—
LOGOS
The logo on the right is that of
The New York Times 's
philosophy weblog "The Stone."
Philipson, incidentally, reportedly died on the morning of November 3.
See the remarks of Tom Wolfe quoted here on that date.
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Many Years
From Tony Phillips's American Mathematical Society column
for November 2017 —
" It is significant that the authors chose to place this announcement
of their results not in a mathematics journal but in one aimed at a
much larger scientific audience; their writing is appropriately
expository, especially in the introduction. Nature itself ran an
assessment of the paper in their 'News and Views' section,
October 4: 'Mathematics: A pariah finds a home,' by Terry Gannon.
Gannon sets the stage, again in terms suitable for wide consumption,
and sketches out the story. He ends 'It is always difficult to gauge
the importance of a mathematical result without the hindsight
that many years brings. Nevertheless, Duncan et al. have shown us
a door. Whether it is to a new closet, house or world, we cannot yet say,
but the results are certainly unexpected, and no one will think of
the pariahs in the same way again.' "
See as well Log24 on the above date — Text and Context.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Product Placement
And the Irving Thalberg Award goes to…
Robert De Niro as Irving Thalberg in "The Last Tycoon"
Text and Context—
Text:
Jerky Treats for dogs
Context:
"Mad Dog and Glory" (March 5, 1993)
"Point of No Return" (March 19, 1993) —
Note Jerky Treats in background.
A possible acceptance speech for the Thalberg Award—
"Let me put you in this unit." — John Calley, via Buck Henry