Compare and contrast the "She and Her" of yesterday evening's
10:03 PM post with the "Her and She" of this morning's
11:53 AM post.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Relentless Matching
Friday, May 30, 2014
Matching Theory
Some mathematical background for yesterday's
remarks "For the Bregnans" and "Lost in Translation"—
"Matching Theory: A Sampler, from Dénes König
to the Present," by Michael D. Plummer, 1991.
See also Matching Theory by Plummer and Lovász.
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Sunday, June 9, 2024
Art for Pilot Fish
The Pilot Fish
"That year the rich came led by the pilot fish.
A year before they would never have come.
There was no certainty then.
The work was as good and the happiness was greater
but no novel had been written, so they could not be sure.
They never wasted their time nor their charm
on something that was not sure. Why should they?"
Note the making of a matching pattern.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Geometry for Belgium
Other matching patterns . . .
Tuesday Weld in the 1972 film of Didion's Play It As It Lays :
Note the making of a matching pattern.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Where Madness Lies … and Sometimes Tells the Truth
Tuesday Weld in the 1972 film of Didion's Play It As It Lays :
Note the making of a matching pattern.
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Monday, February 18, 2019
Quantum Choreography
In the beginning of the 1954 film "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,"
Adam, oldest of the brothers, is paired with Milly. The problem then is
to find brides for Adam's six brothers.
Above is a video illustration, published on Aug. 12, 2016, of the six couples.
Matching them involves some choreography.
See also this journal on Aug. 12, 2016 — "Dustbucket Physics" —
"… through the proposition machine of quantum mechanics
comes pregeometry; pregeometry makes geometry;
geometry gives rise to matter and the physical laws
and constants of the universe."
— Harvard professor Peter Galison,
defender of the faith of Scientism
For a different sort of quantum "proposition machine," see posts tagged
Dirac and Geometry.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Rhymes with Prize
On the triangle in the excerpt above —
"A golden triangle can be split into
a golden triangle and a golden gnomon.
The same is true for a golden gnomon.
A golden gnomon and a golden triangle
with their equal sides matching each other
in length are also referred to as the obtuse
and acute Robinson triangles.
These isosceles triangles can be used to
produce Penrose tilings."
— Adapted from Wikipedia (Wikipedia's word
"bisected" is replaced above by the word "split.")
The previous post dealt with women and lies.
Related material — Quilt Prize in this journal.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
Quad Rants
Continued from 24 hours ago.
"AA had no rules but many traditions (that were, in fact, rules).
One of the most ironclad was that you never made a Twelfth Step
call on an active alcoholic by yourself, unless the alkie in question
was safely incarcerated in a hospital, detox, or the local bughouse.
If you did, you were apt to end up matching him drink for drink and
line for line."
— King, Stephen (2013-09-24). Doctor Sleep: A Novel
(p. 272). Scribner. Kindle Edition.
" Aus 'It' wurde 'Es', und King sprach es so aus,
dass man sich alleine vom Klang des Titels
gruselte: 'Essssss!' "
— Last night's online
Hamburger Abendblatt
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
A Google search for images matching
Amy Adams's door in the 2005 film
"Standing Still" yields a surprising result.
Related material: Adams in "Doubt" (2008).
See also A Touch of Glass.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
The Lost Cornerstone
This post was suggested by this morning's New York Times story on the missing cornerstone of St. Patrick's Cathedral and by the recent design for an official T-shirt celebrating Harvard's 375th anniversary—
In Harvard's case, the missing piece beneath the cathedral-like spire* is the VERITAS on the college shield.
Possible sources for a shield image representing VERITAS—
1. "Patrick Blackburn" in this journal, which might be combined with
2. Reflections on Kurt Gödel ** by Hao Wang, Chapter 9, "To Fit All the Parts Together"—
"The metaphor of fitting parts together readily suggests
the concrete image of solving a picture puzzle…." (p. 243)
Or the image of a Wang tiles puzzle.
A graphic image, colorful but garish, that summarizes these two sources—
Shield with matching Wang tiles
* The Lowell House bell tower
** MIT Press, first published in 1987
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