Related material from Log24:
Illustration from the post Rota on Beauty (May 21, 2017).
Friday, September 1, 2017
Harvey’s Tulips
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Sunday, May 21, 2017
Rota on Beauty
Tiptoe through the tulips with Rota and Erickson:
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Attempts have been made to string together beautiful mathematical results and to present them in books bearing such attractive titles as The One Hundred Most Beautiful Theorems of Mathematics. Such anthologies are seldom found on a mathematician’s bookshelf. The beauty of a theorem is best observed when the theorem is presented as the crown jewel within the context of a theory. — Gian-Carlo Rota in Indiscrete Thoughts |
See also Martin Erickson in this journal . . .
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Friday, July 25, 2014
Magic in the Moonshine
“The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning
of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not
typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the
meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside,
enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a
haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes
are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine.”
— Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness
“By groping toward the light we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is around us.”
— Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy,
Random House, 1973, page 118
“Spectral evidence is a form of evidence
based upon dreams and visions.” —Wikipedia
See also Moonshine (May 15, 2014) and, from the date of the above
New York Times item, two posts tagged Wunderkammer .
Related material: From the Spectrum program of the Mathematical
Association of America, some non-spectral evidence.
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
STEM
“ ‘A babbled of green fields”
— Phrase attributed to Shakespeare
quoted here on September 15th
From a New York Times piece online today,
a quote promoting science and technology,
and a quote on aptitude :
… the STEM fields (“STEM” being the current shorthand
for “science, technology, engineering and mathematics”),
which offer so much in the way of job prospects, prestige,
intellectual stimulation and income….
… scientific and mathematical aptitude at
the very highest end of the spectrum ….
From a post of June 9, 2013 :
Related material — yesterday’s posts
See as well Mood Indigo.
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Sunday, June 9, 2013
Sicilian Reflections
(Continued from Sept. 22, 2011)
See Taormina in this journal, and the following photo of "Anne Newton"—
Click photo for context.
Related material:
"Super Overarching" in this journal,
a group of order 322,560, and…
See also the MAA Spectrum program —
— and an excerpt from the above book:
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Friday, June 7, 2013
For Donut Day
A predecessor to the Max Barry novel Lexicon .
(The latter will be published on June 18.)
See, too, an MAA Spectrum book:
Click on images for details.
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