The previous post suggests a search in this journal for Netanyahu.
That search suggests a Wikipedia article on n+1 magazine.
* See Wikipedia for a definition.
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Mathematical Induction*
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Monday, July 25, 2022
Homage to Patagonia
In memory of a political figure who reportedly died on Sunday —
Note the approximate target of the holy nib.
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Midnight Clear
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Monday, June 21, 2021
The Bauhaus Dance
"If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021
The Triangle Induction (Attn: Harlan Kane)
Related material from Wikipedia —
Keith A. Gessen (born January 9, 1975) is a Russian-born
American novelist, journalist, and literary translator.
He is co-founder and co-editor of American literary magazine
and an assistant professor of journalism at the Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism.
Early life and education
Born Konstantin Alexandrovich Gessen into a Jewish family in Moscow….
Some related images —
The logo of a news site that yesterday
covered a Colorado Springs story:
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Monday, May 10, 2021
For a Quicker Picker-Upper
“The following is an excerpt from Joshua Cohen’s
new novel, The Netanyahus, out next week
in the UK from Fitzcarraldo Editions, and on June 22
in the US from New York Review Books.”
— https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/
online-only/an-american-historian/
” After half a century in the professorate,
I was recently retired from my post as the
Andrew William Mellon Memorial Professor
of American Economic History at Corbin University
in Corbindale, New York, in the occasionally rural,
occasionally wild heart of Chautauqua County,
just inland from Lake Erie among the apple orchards
and apiaries and dairies—or, as dismissive, geographically
illiterate New York City–folk insist on calling it, ‘Upstate.’ ”
For some background on the source, see Wikipedia
on Joshua Cohen and on n+1 magazine.
A related search result:
Though the n+1 piece was published April 27, I have only now noticed it.
Perhaps some quicker picker-upper in Chautauqua County has already
written about the novel’s local color.
A post from this journal on that date, April 27, was related to my own
non-fictional college experience in Fredonia, NY (Chautauqua County) —
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 —New Site
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Sunday, November 1, 2020
Art Theory
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Between, or: Interality Illustrated (according to Sherald)
“We live in between the lines;
in between the cracks . . . .
That’s where the bonds are formed. ”
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Friday, December 15, 2017
Matter
The previous post, "Mind," suggests a search for "n+1" in this journal.
From that search —
The above psychoanalytic remarks suggest . . .
See also "Transformers" (2007).
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime
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Thursday, July 7, 2016
The Curious Case of the Concrete Universal
Erica Goode in the online New York Times tonight —
"Irving Gottesman, a pioneer in the field of behavioral genetics
whose work on the role of heredity in schizophrenia helped
transform the way people thought about the origins of serious
mental illness, died on June 29 at his home in Edina, Minn., a
suburb of Minneapolis. He was 85.
His wife, Carol, said he died while taking an afternoon nap.
Although Dr. Gottesman had some health problems, she said,
his death was unexpected, and several of his colleagues said
they received emails from him earlier that day."
A note from noon (EDT) on that day, June 29, for the Church of Synchronology —
A detail from the page mentioned in the June 29 post above —
A passage related to the word "soul" discussed by Sullivan —
See as well a related biblical passage, better known at the time of Royce (ca. 1892)
than today, that would probably mean nothing to the late Dr. Gottesman.
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Scottish Algebra
Two papers suggested by Google searches tonight—
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[PDF] PAPERS HELD OVER FROM THEME ISSUE ON ALGEBRA AND …
ajse.kfupm.edu.sa/articles/271A_08p.pdf
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – View as HTML by RT Curtis – 2001 – Related articles This paper is based on a talk given at the Scottish Algebra Day 1998 in Edinburgh. …… |
Curtis discusses the exceptional outer automorphism of S6
as arising from group actions of PGL(2,5).
See also Cameron and Galois on PGL(2,5)—
[PDF] ON GROUPS OF DEGREE n AND n-1, AND HIGHLY-SYMMETRIC …
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Illustration from Cameron (1973)—
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
Castles in the Air
"… the Jews have discovered a way to access a fourth spatial dimension."
— Clifford Pickover, description of his novel Jews in Hyperspace
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
"King Solomon's Mines," 1937—
The image above is an illustration from "Romancing the Hyperspace," May 4, 2010.
Happy birthday to the late Salomon Bochner.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Signature*
"He gazed out of the window hoping that somehow everything could make sense to him."
— "Passing in Silence," by Oliver Humpage
"You gotta be true to your code." —Sinatra
Exercise: Trace a path from the June 27 NY Lottery numbers
to the above two quotations. Hint: See Cuernavaca and
Pilgrim's Progress in TIME Magazine, May 3, 1948.
For some further background, click on the CBS quote above.
I still prefer, as I did in 1948, less up-to-the-minute developments.
* The title refers to the phrase "the artist's signature."
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Monday, August 5, 2002
Monday August 5, 2002
History, Stephen said….
— To really know a subject you've got to learn a bit of its history….
We both know what memories can bring;
They bring diamonds and rust.
All sorts of structures that can be defined for finite sets have analogues for the projective geometry of finite fields….
Clearly this pattern is trying to tell us something; the question is what. As always, it pays to focus on the simplest case, since that's where everything starts.
In the beginning was the word….
— The Gospel according to Saint John
The anonymous author of John makes liberal use of allegory and double-entendre to illustrate this theme.
Born yesterday: Logician John Venn.
Venn considered three discs R, S, and T as typical subsets of a set U. The intersections of these discs and their complements divide U into 8 nonoverlapping regions….
— History of Mathematics at St. Andrews
Who would not be rapt by the thought of such marvels?….
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