Friday, April 30, 2021
Monday, January 22, 2024
Box Geometry
From a search in this journal for "Box of Nothing" —
"And the Führer digs for trinkets in the desert."
From a related search, for "Ghent Links" —
Related art —
More seriously… See Box759.
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Friday, May 13, 2022
Annals of Numerology: Zero Dark 56
The above title is a reference to the time of the previous post.
Nightmare Alley fans may enjoy . . .
Those who prefer pure mathematics to entertainments of this sort
may meditate on the geometric properties of the number 56.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Supercube Space
The new URL supercube.space forwards to http://box759.wordpress.com/.
The term supercube is from a 1982 article by Solomon W. Golomb.
The related new URL supercube.group forwards to a page that
describes how the 2x2x2 (or eightfold, or "super") cube's natural
underlying automorphism group is Klein's simple group of order 168.
For further context, see the new URL supercube.art.
For some background, see the phrase Cube Space in this journal.
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Friday, March 4, 2022
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Annals of Numerology
From that opening date — June 25, 2021 — in this journal:
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"We have much to discover." — Saying attributed to Midrash for Doctorow —
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The Fraction 25/24 —
Numbers Revisualized —
25
24
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Sunday, May 30, 2021
For Cruella: All About Yves
The full last name of Yves Saint-Laurent was Mathieu-Saint-Laurent.
See as well Mystery Box and Box759.
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Friday, May 28, 2021
The Whole-Object Notion
Ars Technica , Lee Hutchinson —
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We represent things in the world with words, and once you know that words represent concrete things, it's a short jump to realizing that words can represent abstract things, too. Symbolic representation isn't necessarily straightforward, either. "A philosopher named Quine had this notion," she said. "If you're out in the field with somebody, and they point and say 'Gavagai!' and you look and you see a rabbit running through the field, you assume that gavagai in their language means rabbit . But how do you know it doesn't mean 'brown,' or 'tail,' or 'leg,' or 'fur'—" "Or, 'Look at that!'" I said. "Yeah, all of this other stuff is present, but we have this whole object notion," she said. "We have a notion of what constitutes a distinct object, and we assume that the word corresponds to that whole object as a default. Would the alien have that notion?" |
See as well posts tagged Books as Objects.
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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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Friday, May 7, 2021
Types of Ambiguity
“Omega is as real as we need it to be.”
— Burt Lancaster in “The Osterman Weekend”
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Thursday, May 6, 2021
The Geometry of 8 and of 24
Following the advice in the previous post . . .
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Saturday, May 1, 2021
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Blocks in a Box
In Scientific American today —
For a more sophisticated approach to the phrase
“blocks in a box,” search for “the 759 blocks” and
then see box759.wordpress.com.
The mathematics there is based on an apparently
less sophisticated example of “blocks in a box” —
See also Cube Space in this journal.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Monday, April 26, 2021
Desperately Seeking Symmetry
RA Wilson —”[Submitted on 20 Apr 2021 (v1),
last revised 23 Apr 2021 (this version, v2)]”
SH Cullinane — See as well
box759.wordpress.com.
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