"I could a tale unfold . . ." — Hamlet's father's ghost
Guarini's Four-Knight Problem of 1512 …
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Precursor to Dürer’s 1514 Square
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Monday, January 13, 2025
From the Dies Natalis of
a Tolkien Mapmaker
This post was suggested by a New York Times
"Overlooked No More" obituary today.
See also Durer Knight in this journal.
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a Tolkien Mapmaker
a Tolkien Mapmaker
Thursday, January 18, 2024
But Seriously: Mathematics for Davos
Click image to enlarge.
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Saturday, March 7, 2015
Film and Phenomenology
Continued from All Hallows' Eve, 2014.
Last year's Halloween post displayed the
Dürer print Knight, Death, and the Devil
(illustrated below on the cover of the book
Film and Phenomenology by Allan Casebier).
Cover illustration: Knight, Death, and the Devil,
by Albrecht Dürer
Some mathematics related to a different Dürer print —
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Friday, October 31, 2014
For the Late Hans Schneider
See a University of Wisconsin obituary for Schneider,
a leading expert on linear algebra who reportedly died
at 87 on Tuesday, October 28, 2014.
Some background on linear algebra and “magic” squares:
tonight’s 3 AM (ET) post and a search in this
journal for Knight, Death, and the Devil.
Click image to enlarge.
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
Realism
From the Los Angeles Times yesterday—
"Chess player Elena Akhmilovskaya Donaldson sits
in deep concentration at the U.S. chess championship
in Seattle in 2002. (Greg Gilbert / Seattle Times /
January 5, 2002)"
Linda Shaw, Seattle Times :
"Elena Akhmilovskaya Donaldson, who was once the world's
second-ranked women's chess player and eloped in 1988
with the captain of the U.S. chess team when they were both
playing at a tournament in Greece, has died. She was 55.
Donaldson, who earned the title of international women's
grandmaster, died Nov. 18 in her adopted hometown of Seattle…."
From the Log24 post "Sermon" on the date of Donaldson's death,
Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012—
"You must allow us to play every conceivable combination of chess."
— Marie-Louise von Franz in Number and Time
An October 2011 post titled Realism in Plato's Cave displays
the following image:
Cover illustration: Knight, Death, and the Devil,
by Albrecht Dürer
George Steiner and myself in Closing the Circle, a Log24 post
of Sept. 4, 2009:
“Allegoric associations of death with chess are perennial….”
"Yes, they are."
For related remarks on knight moves and the devil, see
today's previous two posts, Knight's Labyrinth and The Rite.
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Realism in Plato’s Cave
In memory of the late combinatorialist-philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota…
Excerpts from the introduction to Allan Casebier's
Film and Phenomenology: Towards a Realist Theory of Cinematic Representation
(Cambridge Studies in Film, Cambridge University Press, 1991) —
Pages 1-2, pages 3-4, pages 5-6.
Cover illustration: Knight, Death, and the Devil, by Albrecht Dürer
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