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Starring J. J. Abrams as Leonhard Euler?

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The Cornell cap in the recent HBO "White Lotus" —

  "I'm just playing the hand I was dealt."

“The great Confucius guided China spiritually for over 2,000 years.
The main doctrine is ' 仁 ' pronounced 'ren', meaning two people,
i.e., human relationship. Modern science has been highly competitive.
I think an injection of the human element will make our subject more
healthy and enjoyable." 

— Geometer Shiing-Shen Chern in a Wikipedia article

See the "ren" character in Wiktionary.  See as well . . .

"The development of ren  ( 仁 )  in early Chinese philosophy,"
By Robin Elliott Curtis, U. of B.C. Master's thesis, 2016 —

Thus, we can conclude that several different forms of
the character ren , were in existence during the
Warring States period. This shows that etymological analyses
focusing exclusively on the combination of 人 and 二 are inadequate.
It should also serve as a warning against “character fetishization,”
or giving “exaggerated status to Chinese characters in the interpretation
of Chinese language, thought, and culture.” ⁴⁶

46  Edward McDonald 2009, p. 1194.

McDonald, Edward. 2009. “Getting over the Walls of
Discourse: 'Character Fetishization' in Chinese Studies.”
The Journal of Asian Studies  68 (4): 1189 – 1213.

Wikipedia article on Ren  in Confucianism:

"The core of everything" . . . Citation needed ?

"To demonstrate standing, a claimant must first show
he has incurred concrete, particularized and actual
or imminent injury; that the injury can be fairly traced
back to what is being challenged in court and that
the remedy sought can redress the issue."

— https://yaledailynews.com/
blog/2018/02/27/law-clinic-pushes-for-
fisa-court-transparency/

The above Yale date suggests a review of . . .

Raiders of the Lost Images . . .

which in turn suggests a review of Square Space.

Soundtrack (condensed) —

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The hillbilly response —

   — Image courtesy of yankeegirl60.

"Who were  those masked women?"

From today's New York Times  obituary of a pioneering filmmaker —

"In 1948, he enrolled at the University of Toronto 
to study political science and economics.
The avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren taught
a workshop at the university one semester and
he became her lighting assistant. She encouraged
him to abandon economics and make movies instead."

Deren previously appeared here on Sunday, March 31, 2019:

For some wide-screen non-illusion, see . . .

Related material —

As did Quine?

* The Chronicle of Higher Education  publishes the online Arts & Letters Daily ,
from which the above citation of a book review is taken. The review itself is from
the leftist Los Angeles Review of Books .  The review quotes a book by Deborah
Harkness, The Jewel House , published by Yale University Press on Oct. 28, 2008.

Yale University Press on Harkness:

"Deborah E. Harkness is professor of history, 
University of Southern California. 
She is the author of John Dee’s Conversations with Angels :
Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature  and of
the New York Times  bestseller A Discovery of Witches .
http://deborahharkness.com ."

See also this  journal in late October, 2008.

” ‘The Maori named him Rog,’ Yael continued,
‘because those were the only I.D. letters that could
be made out on the wreck.’ ”
— Alfred Bester, The Deceivers

Valentine reportedly died on December 29, 2020.

Related dialogue from “The Mirror Has Two Faces” (1996) —

– It’s interesting how coupling appears in nature and mathematics.

– You were talking about pairs …

– Oh, the twin-prime conjecture. It explores pairs of prime numbers.
Those only divisible by themselves. Three-five. Five-seven.
Not seven-nine …

– Nine can be divided by three.

– That’s right.  And … and so on.  It was discovered that pairs were
often separated by …

– One number in between.

– Exactly. Did you read my book?

– No, I’m sorry.

– That’s okay. This is marvellous.

– A first date like a game show.

– I didn’t mean to lecture.

– I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to call it a date.

Twin-Prime Dates —

December 31  and December 29, 2020.

“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still
which she did not know.  Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn
of time.  But if she could have looked a little further back, into the
stillness and the darkness before Time dawned…she would have known
that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed
in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start
working backwards.”

– C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , as quoted at
https://apologyanalogy.com/death-working-backwards/ .

See a Log24 search that includes earlier posts on “Redactedentity.”

Recent activity by that entity at the Encyclopedia of Mathematics:

As the above “recent changes” list notes, Redactedentity added
a new favicon section to Talk:EoM on December 7, 2020.  Details —

The new section as it appeared later, with “Redactedentity”
replaced by “Mihir Narayanan” —

Update at 5:35 PM ET on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 —

User “Redactedentity” at Wikipedia is now user “Mihir Narayanan.”

From the previous post:

“… all things, whether below or above appearance,
are one and that it is only through reality, in which
they are reflected or, it may be, joined together,
that we can reach them.”

— Wallace Stevens

See also “The Bond with Reality.”

Instagram story from Marrific last night, with
theme from  “Rocky” playing in background  —

Instagram photo from Marrific on May 3, 2018 —

“This is a fight not over the contents of the cocktails but the cups in which
they’re served. Both are long, plastic ‘yard cup’-style containers with
customized bulbous bottoms. On the hand grenade, this is modeled after
the namesake explosive, while for Willie’s cocktail it’s a rooster body,
extending through the shaft of the cup to a rooster’s beak decked with
sunglasses.”— Ian McNulty, nola.com, April 10, 2019

Risin’ Up to the Challenge of Our Rival —

The Knight of Cups may wish to consult the above Marrific
cock tale date in this  journal — May 3, 2018.

Related image —

“Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”

“Mathematics may be art, but to the general public it is
a black art, more akin to magic and mystery. This presents
a constant challenge to the mathematical community: to explain
how art fits into our subject and what we mean by beauty.”

— Sir Michael Atiyah, quoted here on April 4, 2016

See also Plan 9 from Yale
and Galois Desargues.

Jack Bruce reportedly died on October 25, 2014.

"Dirk Pitt is a fictional character created by American novelist Clive Cussler 
and featured in a series of novels published from 1976 to 2009. Pitt is a
larger-than-life hero reminiscent of pulp magazine icon Doc Savage."

— Wikipedia

"Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician."

— Sir Michael Atiyah, quoted here in Two Views of Finite Space.

Author Clive Cussler, who reportedly died Monday at 88 —

“I detested school,” he told Publishers Weekly  in 1994.
“I was always the kid who was staring out the window.
While the teacher was lecturing on algebra, I was on
the deck of a pirate ship or in an airplane shooting down
the Red Baron.”

Related material —

[Steam calliope plays] As a stationary object,
it always needs to be activated.
— Kara Walker at

https://amara.org/en/videos/WyaakarvecMR/info/
kara-walker-jason-moran-sending-out-a-signal-
art21-extended-play/

Backstory —

See also this  journal on the above "catastrophe" weekend.

From the previous post —

Psychiatrist Irvin Yalom on Philip Roth's Exit Ghost ,
in an undated interview published in 2008:

"Philip Roth has got a new book out called Exit Ghost ,
which I find touching. He’s ageing and pursuing the
question of what ageing does to a writer’s skills. I’m
dealing with that myself so that book speaks for me
a great deal."

Related material from October 2, 2007 —

See as well this  journal on the days before and after
the Kakutani review above:

October 1, 2007 — Bright as Magnesium

October 3, 2007 — Janitor Monitor .

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Related material — http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Ghost+Dog

Oh, the red leaf looks to the hard gray stone
To each other, they know what they mean

— Suzanne Vega, “Songs in Red and Gray“

" The subject is justified by its usefulness
rather than as a 'rite of passage.' ”.

— The late Martin Muldoon reviewing a book,
From Vector Spaces to Function Spaces:
Introduction to Functional Analysis with Applications ,
by Yutaka Yamamoto (SIAM, 2012)

Such an introduction is properly a rite of pure mathematics —
the passage in the title from vector spaces to function spaces.

That passage is one of mathematical beauty.
Usefulness is Hiroshima.

Muldoon reportedly died on August 1, 2019.

This journal on that date had a post titled 

Different Meanings:  For Whom the Bell .

The "Bell" in that post was the author of a New York Times  book review.
I prefer a Stephen King bell —

John Horgan in Scientific American  magazine on October 8, 2019 —

"In the early 1990s, I came to suspect that the quest
for a unified theory is religious rather than scientific.
Physicists want to show that all things came from
one thing:  a force, or essence, or membrane
wriggling in eleven dimensions, or something that
manifests perfect mathematical symmetry. In their
search for this primordial symmetry, however,
physicists have gone off the deep end . . . ."

Other approaches —

See "Story Theory of Truth" in this  journal and, from the November 2019  
Notices of the American Mathematical Society . . .

"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Optimus Prime

Photo Opportunity , courtesy of Leni Riefenstahl — Click to enlarge.

From Paul Simon's dreaded Cartoon Graveyard —

 

The Riefenstahl publication above was suggested by . . .

Exploring  Schoolgirl  Space  (July 8) continues.

"Eh Fatty Boom-Boom
Hit me with the Ching-Ching"

— Song lyric

From a post of Dec., 20, 2014 —

From "X-Men: First Class" —

An illustration from the previous post may be interpreted
as an attempt to unbokeh  an inscape —

The 15 lines above are Euclidean  lines based on pairs within a six-set. 
For examples of Galois  lines so based, see Six-Set Geometry: