Related material —
Friday, September 2, 2022
Kyoto Prize
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Saturday, February 23, 2019
Austrian Wins Kyoto Prize (Revisited)
For the title, see Schwarzenegger and "Clockwork Orange"
in the June 2005 post "All in the Timing."
Related music — Taps for Donen —
Donen reportedly died on Thursday.
See this journal on that day for a related
New York Times meditation.
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Lovasz Wins Kyoto Prize
From a June 18 press release—
KYOTO, Japan, Jun 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The non-profit Inamori Foundation (President: Dr. Kazuo Inamori) today announced that Dr. Laszlo Lovasz will receive its 26th annual Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, which for 2010 focuses on the field of Mathematical Sciences. Dr. Lovasz, 62, a citizen of both Hungary and the United States, will receive the award for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of both the academic and technological possibilities of the mathematical sciences.
Dr. Lovasz currently serves as both director of the Mathematical Institute at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest and as president of the International Mathematics Union. Among many positions held throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Lovasz also served as a senior research member at Microsoft Research Center and as a professor of computer science at Yale University.
Related material: Cube Space, 1984-2003.
See also “Kyoto Prize” in this journal—
The Kyoto Prize is “administered by the Inamori Foundation, whose president, Kazuo Inamori, is founder and chairman emeritus of Kyocera and KDDI Corporation, two Japanese telecommunications giants.”
— – Montreal Gazette, June 20, 2008
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Kyoto Prize
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
Enveloping-Algebra Note, 1983
Click for the pages below at Internet Archive.
Enveloping algebras also appeared later in the work on "crystal bases"
of Masaki Kashiwara. It seems highly unlikely that his work on enveloping
algebras, or indeed any part of his work on crystal bases, has any relation
to my own earlier notes.
A 1995 page by Kashiwara —
Kashiwara was honored with a Kyoto prize in 2018:
Kashiwara's 2018 Kyoto Prize diploma —
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Thursday, July 23, 2015
Space
It's Space Week at Camp Google.
“… the object sets up
a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
— Charles Taylor
“My little baby sister can do it with ease.
It’s easier to learn than those ABC’s.”
— Kylie Minogue
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Strict Form
Two items from this morning’s news:
“Sasaki Roshi trained for years in a distinctively strict style of Zen
that he transplanted to the U.S. His students rose at 3 a.m.
for chanting, exhausting hours of meditation and one-on-one
meetings with their teacher, who would pose impenetrable
koans, riddles like: ‘When you see the flower, where is God?'”
For a mathematician’s example of an alleged Zen ideal, see the feast day
this year of St. Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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Monday, June 21, 2010
1984 Story (continued)
This journal’s 11 AM Sunday post was “Lovasz Wins Kyoto Prize.” This is now the top item on the American Mathematical Society online home page—
For more background on Lovasz, see today’s
previous Log24 post, Cube Spaces, and also
Cube Space, 1984-2003.
“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and
say of this or that event, it never happened….”
— George Orwell, 1984
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Saturday August 15, 2009
For St. Willard
Van Orman Quine
" ... to apprehend The point of intersection of the timeless With time, is an occupation for the saint" -- Four Quartets
The Timeless:
Time
(64 years,
and more):
| Today in History
Today is Saturday, Aug. 15, the 227th day of 2009. There are 138 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 15, 1945, Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced to his subjects in a prerecorded radio address that Japan had accepted terms of surrender for ending World War II. On this date: In 1057, Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain. |
Macbeth:
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
Quine:
“I really have nothing to add.”
— Quine, quoted
on this date in 1998.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Wednesday June 25, 2008
Prize Dance
“I would not know what the spirit
of a philosopher might wish more
to be than a good dancer.
For the dance is his ideal,
also his art, and finally also his
only piety, his ‘service of God.'”
Charles Taylor, winner
of this year’s Kyoto Prize
in arts and philosophy:
“… the object sets up
a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
“My little baby sister
can do it with ease.
It’s easier to learn
than those ABC’s.”
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Wednesday June 25, 2008
Born 100 years ago today:
Other approaches to the
eight-ray star figure
have been sketched in
various Log24 entries.
See, for instance, the
June 21 entries on
the Kyoto Prize for
arts and philosophy.
Quine won this prize
in 1996.
Quine’s figure, cited in an
argument against universals,
is also a classic symbol for
the morning or evening star.
This year’s winner 
of the Kyoto Prize has
a more poetic approach
to philosophy:
“… the object sets up
a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
For one such frame or space,
a Mexican cantina, see
Shining Forth.
See also Damnation Morning and
The Devil and Wallace Stevens. Charles Taylor. See
“Epiphanies of Modernism,”
Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self
(Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477)
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Saturday June 21, 2008
for lifetime achievement
in arts and philosophy
this year goes to
Charles Taylor,
Montreal philosophy professor.
“The Kyoto Prize has been given in three domains since 1984:
advanced technology, basic sciences, and the arts and philosophy.
It is administered by the Inamori Foundation, whose president,
Kazuo Inamori, is founder and chairman emeritus of Kyocera and
KDDI Corporation, two Japanese telecommunications giants.”
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“The Kyocera brand symbol is composed of a corporate mark |
Related material —
Charles Taylor,
“Epiphanies of Modernism,”
Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self
(Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477) —
“… the object sets up
a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
See also Talking of Michelangelo.
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Friday, June 10, 2005
Friday June 10, 2005
All in the Timing
Posted in USA TODAY
6/9/2005 11:40 PM:
A look at the job approval rating
of California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger
since his election in Oct. 2003.
of California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger
since his election in Oct. 2003.
What's YOUR opinion?
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Update of 2:29 PM:
Austrian Wins
Kyoto Prize
Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, 75,
was recognized for his ''exceptional creativity.''
Background:
For a sample of Harnoncourt conducting
Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," from the film
"A Clockwork Orange," see
The CMT Shop,
Simply the Best Movie Themes.
Peter Bates, Audiophile Audition:
"Harnoncourt's sense of drama is intense."
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