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Friday, September 1, 2017

Harvey’s Tulips

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http://deadline.com/2017/08/
harvey-weinstein-on-the-challenge-
of-growing-tulip-fever-
guest-column-1202158947/

Related material from Log24:

Illustration from the post Rota on Beauty (May 21, 2017).

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Truly Tasteless* Tulips

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Excerpt from the above story

"The project could also be a new frontier for Mr. Koons.
'It’s superconceptual,' said Judith Benhamou-Huet,
a French art critic and blogger, in that 'he’s giving
the concept but not the realization.' She compared
the approach to that of Sol LeWitt, who sold wall drawings
that buyers then executed on their own."

Rachel Donadio

See also the previous post and Rota on Beauty.

* A reference to Truly Tasteless Jokes , by Blanche Knott
  (Book 1 of 11, Ballantine Books paperback, May 1985, page 50).

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Now Lens

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The title is from James Joyce.

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Gifted Continues

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Related material — See Gifted in this journal.

See as well Tulips.

Yesterday was the International Day of the Girl Child . . .
A related archived Wikipedia article on Kirkman's schoolgirl problem :

See also the previous post— "IPFS Version"— and https://ipfs.io/.

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Rota on Beauty

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Tiptoe through the tulips with Rota and Erickson:

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 . . . 

Friday, May 2, 2014

From Rune

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” ‘Harriet Burden has been really great to me,’
Rune says in an interview, ‘not only as a collector
of my work but as a true supporter. And I think of her
as a muse for the project … ‘ “

— In The Blazing World , the artist known as Rune
(See also Rune + Muse in this journal.)

Lily Collins in a Log24 post of Jan. 15, 2014— “Entertainment Theory

Related material from Trish Mayo—

The tulips are from today,
the gate is from April 27.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

YouTube Music Award

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:00 pm

From a book by Harvard mathematician Barry Mazur —

IMAGE- Barry Mazur quotes Rumi in 'Imagining Numbers'

"Part of the self leaves the body when we sleep…"

The video —

See also the Saturday evening post "Fingo."

Friday, June 7, 2013

For Donut Day

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

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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