See the title phrase and "working backward" in this journal.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
“Ronald Graham, 1935-2020”
Graham reportedly died yesterday, Monday, July 6, 2020.
His AMS obituary says “he created the Erdős number.”
See also the tag in the previous post.
(That tag was created and added to several posts
just before I saw the above news of Graham’s death.
The tag, Erdős number, was suggested by an earlier post from
June 30 — the cartoonist’s death date in today’s 8:45 PM post.)
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Gravedigger’s Handbook
In memory of Jimmy Breslin, who reportedly died today at 88 —
From "Dimensions," (Log24, Feb. 15, 2015) —
"Hello darkness, my old friend.
I’ve come to talk with you again."
Monday, April 18, 2016
Talented but Modest
"When Death tells a story…"
— Cover of The Book Thief
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Dimensions
Thursday, August 7, 2014
The Omega Mystery
See a post, The Omega Matrix, from the date of her death.
Related material:
"When Death tells a story, you really have to listen."
— Cover of The Book Thief
A scene from the film of the above book —
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code is like staring into the sun.”
Some context — "Mathematics, Magic, and Mystery" —
See posts tagged April Awareness 2014.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Recognition
This post was suggested by…
1. Movie reviews links on the NY Times online front page—
2. "When Death tells a story…" in this journal
3. A search for "Recognition" in this journal
(suggested by Terence Cave's Recognitions ,
mentioned in a post of October 31.)
4. The play "Magic," by G. K. Chesterton
5. The following posts —
The post itself consists simply of the title,
together with the above items that suggested
the title.
Monday, October 7, 2013
Post-Production (continued)
This journal on Oct. 2, the date of death for
the developer of mathematical Braille —
Clicking on the image of St. Peter's Square in that post led to…
Braille, as noted in last midnight's post, is based
on a six-dot cell. For some pure mathematics of
the six-dot cell, see
Modeling the 21-point plane
with outer automorphisms of S6
Two quotations that seem relevant —
"When Death tells a story, you really have to listen"
— Cover of The Book Thief
"This is not theology, this is mathematics."
— Steven H. Cullinane, Sept. 22, 2013
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Game
“The Game in the Ship cannot be approached as a job,
a vocation, a career, or a recreation. To the contrary,
it is Life and Death itself at work there. In the Inner Game,
we call the Game Dhum Welur , the Mind of God."
— The Gameplayers of Zan
"When Death tells a story,
you really have to listen."
— The Book Thief , cover
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
A Story
For film producer and studio head John Calley, who died today at 81—
"When Death tells a story, you really have to listen." —The Book Thief (cover)
New York Lottery on Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
This suggests the following random thoughts—
797 April 24, 2003 |
451 August 26, 2002 |
1734 April 24, 2005 |
3276 March 24, 2008 |
Thursday, March 24, 2011
The Call
"When Death tells a story,
you really have to listen."
— Cover, The Book Thief
An image from a post linked to in Tuesday's Koan for Larsson—
An image from today's New York Times obituaries—
Wikipedia on singer Loleatta Holloway, who died Monday—
[Her] "Like a Prayer," a Madonna cover, was a track on the Madonna tribute album Virgin Voices.
New York Times on actress Helen Stenborg, who died Tuesday—
A Minnesotan of Swedish descent, she naturally brought to all her roles the kind of reserve that reflected her upbringing.