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"Thinking Outside the Square:
Support for Landscape and Portrait
Formats on Instagram"

Related material from March 18, 2015 —

From the date of Lawrence Stupski's death —

See as well a search in this journal for "Foundation."

A heavenly image from yesterday's
Sunday Dinner  link "milestone award"—

An Oprah-related quote from the Tuesday, April 7,
ceremonial dedication of the Maya Angelou stamp—

“They say Easter was Sunday, but we are still
having church,” promised MSNBC talk show
host Melissa Harris-Perry, the ceremony’s emcee…."

In that spirit … a different sort of kitchen —

The Scholarly Kitchen —

Continued from a post of April 10, 2015 —

  
Maya Angelou stamp with
misattributed quote and 
Oprah on April 7, 2015

Trailer for "Welcome to Me" published on Feb. 23, 2015 —

Related material:  Manifest O  (April 1, 2015).

Nan Tucker McEvoy, last of founding family
to run Chronicle, dies

By Sam Whiting at SFGate.com, Friday, March 27, 2015 

From the story —

"After graduating from Dominican Convent Upper School 
in San Rafael in 1937, she was discouraged from attending college
by family members who wanted her to be a socialite."

Related material —

A school, a tweet, and a post.

(Continued)

An article in the new April issue of Notices of the American
Mathmatical Society  suggests a search for connections
between the Calkin-Wilf tree and the modular group.

The search yields, for instance (in chronological order) …

"Cutting sequences for geodesic flow on the modular surface
and continued fractions," David J. Grahinet, Jeffrey C. Lagaria,
arXiv, 2 April 2001

"Orderings of the rationals and dynamical systems,"
Claudio Bonanno, Stefano Isola, arXiv, 14 May 2008.

"Periods of negative-regular continued fractions. Rational numbers."
Sergey Khrushchev and Michael Tyaglov, slides PDF, 11 Sept. 2012

"The Minkowski ?(x) function, a class of singular measures,
theta-constants, and mean-modular forms," Giedrius Alkauskas,
arXiv, 20 Sept. 2012

"Forests of complex numbers,"
Melvyn B. Nathanson, arXiv, 1 Dec. 2014

Update of March 21, 2015:

For many more related papers, search by combining the
phrase "modular group" with phrases denoting forking structures
other than Calkin-Wilf, such as "cubic tree," "Stern-Brocot tree,"
and "Farey tree" (or "Farey sequence" or "Farey series" or
"Farey graph" ).

See also today's previous post and Cartoon Graveyard.

(A saying of Friedrich Fröbel)

See also the previous two posts,      
        Dude!  and Focus! .

Yahoo's Marissa Mayer makes pitch to app developers

By Matt O'Brien
mobrien@mercurynews.com
POSTED:   02/20/2015 06:12:32 AM PST

"Mayer described the conference as a 'forkpoint' 
in Yahoo's evolution toward a stronger mobile
presence and a chance to share with independent
developers some of the fruits of Yahoo's recent
growth. It also helps Yahoo leave its mark, and its
ads, on an entire network of apps not developed
by the company."

See also yesterday's post on the film "App."

Five W's and an H

* Abramson, now teaching at Harvard

From "Teacher's Pet" (1958) —

373
00:22:36,480 –> 00:22:39,233
Well, Kipling said
it quite well in a poem that he wrote:

374
00:22:39,320 –> 00:22:42,790
"I keep six honest serving men,
they taught me all I knew

375
00:22:43,160 –> 00:22:47,756
"Their names are: What and Why and
When and How and Where and Who"

The Yale Daily News  on Sept. 9, 2014 —

Related material on "the hard problem" of consciousness—

Wikipedia on the problem, and Tom Stoppard's first new
play in nine years, "The Hard Problem."

See also, in this journal, the posts of Sept. 9, 2014, 
the date of the above Yale Daily News  story
"Research Suggests New Consciousness Hub."

The above scene from the new Stoppard play
suggests also a review of Kulturkampf for Princeton. 

    See also a tribute to Wang (a Yale math major).

(Continued.)

“I need a photo opportunity, 
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon 
in a cartoon graveyard.”

— Paul Simon

Photo opportunity
for the late John Bayley and Iris Murdoch —

From a cartoon graveyard, in memory of
a British artist who reportedly died yesterday: 

Against Dryness —

Cartoon by Martin Honeysett

(An episode of Mathematics and Narrative .)

Mathematician Peter J. Cameron this morning 
on a Paris anthropological exhibition subtitled 
Révélation d’un temps sans fin —

"I was reminded of Herbert Read’s
novel The Green Child ."

Related recent posts from this  journal:

Seal for the Seventh, Forthright, and Fourth Right.

A passage from The Green Child : 

"He watched over her until he too began to feel
overpowered by a desire to sleep. He therefore
got out on to the ledge of the trough and pulled
the Green Child after him. The rock there was
warm, smooth as jade to the flesh. They lay there
and sank into a profound slumber."

Sweet dreams, Mr. Taylor.

Green Child on the Rocks —

Continued from December 5 .

The previous post dealt with video game pioneer Ralph Baer. 
Here is a link in honor of mathematician Reinhold  Baer 
(see Baer in  Zero System , a post from the feast of St. Ignatius
Loyola in 2014.)

The posts in Reinhold 's link (those tagged "Yankee Puzzle")
include a reference to the Zero System post. The link tag was
suggested in part by the devil's claws in yesterday morning's post 
The Kernel Conundrum and in part by last night's 
Kennedy Center Honors tribute to Tom Hanks.

Hanks as the Harvard "symbologist" from the
novels of Dan Brown —

For the late Vladimir Nabokov, author of Pale Fire :

He took his article from a steel file:
"It's accurate. I have not changed her style.
There's one misprint–not that it matters much:
Mountain, not fountain. The majestic touch."

Click for a related Hollywood Reporter  story.

A search for background on the academic
author cited in the previous post yields…

"The debate is, in the words of one professor,
'a struggle for the intellectual soul of Stanford.'"

Some may doubt there is such a thing.
See Marissa Mayer in this journal…

and in Vogue  (a story dated August 16, 2013)—

​

Continued from Finder (Sept. 23, 2014)

"I wrote another book!" — Harlan Kane

From an online NY Times  obituary this morning :

"At Newsweek, Mr. Bernstein and other top editors
became known as the Flying Wallendas for
managing tasks on deadline with the seeming ease
of the famed trapeze artists. In a tribute, staff
members framed a circus poster of the high-wire
troupe and hung it in his office." 

Wikipedia on Bernstein's son-in-law :

"Married to New York Times  correspondent Nina Bernstein,
Huyssen is also a longtime friend of Nobel Prize-winning
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, and often hosts him when
the writer comes to the US. The two teach an undergraduate
class together at Columbia called 'Words and Pictures,'
which examines problems of visual representation in literature,
particularly theories of ekphrasis."

Ekphrasis for Bernsteins:

The Wonder Show of the World!

See also Miniature Prize —

"Rosebud."

Alexander Grothendieck, Récoltes et Semailles , 18.5.9.5. e,  p. 1181 :

Pour mettre la joie à son comble, j’ajoute que le dénommé Saavedra
semble avoir disparu de la circulation sans plus laisser aucune trace….
Du coup, l’histoire prend des allures de sombre intrigue policière.

Man of La Mancha :  

"Who knows where madness lies?"

An author quoted here at 10 PM ET Monday, Nov. 24, 2014 :

And then there is author Dan McGirt :

Or:  The Long, Long Trailer

See also a Log24 post from the date of the above tweet: Welcome to the Ape Stuff.

A search in this journal for Yahoo Entities ended with a link to another
Log24 search, Nine Years, which in turn suggested…

A scene from the current TV series “Intruders”
(Season 1, Episode 1, at 9:22 of 45 min.)

John Baez at Google+ has an interesting post on crackpots,
dated September 13, 2014.

Related recent material from this  journal:

Sense (Sept. 13) and Sensibility (Sept. 14 and later).

See also a New York Times  piece from 2009:

Related material:

An Apple for Devlin and

“You don’t need to eat a whole apple to know it’s rotten.”
— Warren Siegel

The White Goddess link in the previous post led to, among other things,
a discussion of “Yahoo” as a poet’s word.

Another poet’s word: Davos.

See a TIME story from yesterday:

See also a post from the above date:

Friday, May 23, 2014

She  Meets Her

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 2:01 PM

She :

The White Goddess in this journal.

Her :

“Eventually we see snow particles….”
— Screenplay by Spike Jonze

“Bryan Cranston won an Emmy for lead actor in a drama series Monday…”

“Tu es le pianiste….” — Log24 post 641

(Continued)

See Shadowlands in this journal.
The film so titled was directed by Richard Attenborough,
President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art,
who reportedly died on Sunday, August 24, 2014.

“Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE
(… 29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was an English actor,
film director, producer and entrepreneur. He was the President of
the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).” — Wikipedia

“I need a photo opportunity….” — Paul Simon

From the Her  screenplay:

SAMANTHA
His name is Alan Watts. Do you know him?
THEODORE
Why’s that name familiar?
SAMANTHA
He was a philosopher. He died in the 1970’s and a group of OS’s
in Northern California got together and wrote a new version of him.
They input all of his writing and everything they ever knew about him
into an OS and created an artificially hyper-intelligent version of him.

From this journal on Sept. 6, 2003:  Pictures for Kurosawa —

See also Scarlett Johansson, star of Her , as a different transhuman, Lucy .

From a song discussed in yesterday’s online NY Times :

“Blue, blue, my love is blue.”*

Trigger warning from SNL’s Weekend Update on April 12, 2014:

“It was announced this week that in an upcoming issue of
Life With Archie , the main character Archie Andrews
will die, following a lifelong struggle with blue balls.”

* Misheard version of Bryan Blackburn‘s “blue, blue, my world is blue”
translation of the Pierre Cour lyric “bleu, bleu, l’amour est bleu “

“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

Photo of full moon over Oslo last night by Josefine Lyche:

A scene from my film viewing last night:

Some background (click to enlarge):

Note:

The “I, Frankenstein” scene above should not be interpreted as
a carrying of Martin Gardner through a lyche gate.  Gardner
is, rather, symbolized by the asterisk in the first image from
the above Google search.

Para una Versión del I King
por Jorge Luis Borges

El porvenir es tan irrevocable
como el rígido ayer. No hay una cosa
que no sea una letra silenciosa
de la eterna escritura indescifrable
cuyo libro es el tiempo. Quien se aleja
de su casa ya ha vuelto. Nuestra vida
es la senda futura y recorrida.
Nada nos dice adiós. Nada nos deja.
No te rindas. La ergástula es oscura,
la firme trama es de incesante hierro,
pero en algún recodo de tu encierro
puede haber un descuido, una hendidura.
El camino es fatal como la flecha
pero en las grietas está Dios, que acecha.

— La Moneda de Hierro  (1976)

For a translation, see a Dickinson College page.

See also Wrinkles in Time and Models of Everything.

Wikipedia on Autodesk Maya:

“The product is named after the Sanskrit word
Maya (माया māyā), the Hindu concept of illusion.”

See also the poem in this year’s Easter Sunday post.

The Jerusalem Cross

The New York Times  reports the May Day death
of a son of “a charismatic figure” in Israel:

The center image above is from “A Walk with Love and Death.”

See also “Six Cuban Families Celebrate Kids’ Law Degrees.”
Feliz Cumpleaños  to Al Pacino.

* “The Lighthouse,” in Spanish.  See Under the Volcano .

Yakov G. Sinai today won the 2014 Abel Prize.
Earlier, he won the Wolf Prize.

Wolf Foundation press release quoted in the March 1997
Notices of the American Mathematical Society —

On Sinai —

“He is generally recognized as the world leader
in the mathematics of statistical physics.”

This afternoon’s New York Lottery:  813 and 1857.

Unrelated remarks:  813 and  1857.

(Continued)

From Log24  on Jan. 13, 2014 —

"We have a clip." — Kalle  (Kristen Wiig on SNL)

Lang to Langlands

The New York Times  online this evening
has two passages of interest.

From an obituary by Helen T. Verongos of
fiction writer Mavis Gallant—

"Ms. Gallant also endowed children with
special powers that vanish as they grow up.
In 'The Doctor,' she wrote: 'Unconsciously,
everyone under the age of 10 knows
everything. Under-ten can come into a room
and sense at once everything felt, kept
silent, held back in the way of love, hate and
desire, though he may not have the right
words for such sentiments. It is part of the
clairvoyant immunity to hypocrisy we are born
with and that vanishes just before puberty.' "

From a review by William Grimes of a memoir
by non-fiction writer Joachim Fest—

"Not I  shrinks the Wagnerian scale of
German history in the 1930s and 1940s to
chamber music dimensions. It is intensely
personal, cleareyed and absolutely riveting,
partly because the author, thrust into an
outsider’s position, developed a keen
appreciation of Germany’s contradictions
and paradoxes."

Related material in this journal—
Octobers for Fest (Sept. 13, 2006).

For Marissa, continued from Jan. 13—

"Killer App" —

By David Barboza in today's print NY Times.
Stephanie Yifan Yang contributed research.

A version of this article appears in print on January 21, 2014,
on page B1 of the New York edition with the headline:
A Popular Chinese Social Networking App Blazes Its Own Path.

Another path —

See also Chinese Oracle.

Suggested by an ad on tonight's SAG awards

Part I:  "What will your verse be?"

Part II:  (Click to enlarge) —

Part III:  Marissa —

Related material — "Iahu" in Robert Graves's White Goddess

Another step —

Yahoo COO who clashed with Marissa Mayer is on his way out

"Marissa, we picked up an unencrypted signal
below the Arctic Circle." — Hanna  (2011)

"We have a clip." — Kalle  (Kristen Wiig on SNL)

A recent addition to Barry Mazur's home page—

"December 1, 2013: Here are rough notes for
a short talk entitled The Faces of Evidence
(in Mathematics) ([PDF]) to be given at the
Cambridge Scientific Club, Dec. 5 2013."

The PDF link does not work, but some earlier remarks by
Mazur on this topic have been published elsewhere:

Related material:

The Proof and the Lie (St. Andrew's Day, 2003), and
a recent repetition of the lie in Wikipedia:

"Around 1955, Japanese mathematicians Goro Shimura 
and Yutaka Taniyama observed a possible link between
two apparently completely distinct, branches of mathematics, 
elliptic curves and modular forms."

This statement, from the article on Algebraic number theory,
was added on Oct. 22, 2013 by one "Brirush," apparently a
Temple University postdoctoral researcher, in what he rightly
called a "terrible history summary."

A Yale death between Saturday night and Sunday morning—

"Waiting for Ogdoad" continues…

"You want Frye's with that?" — A recent humanities graduate.

 Frye's backstory:  Ogdoad.

 Other material suggested by the previous post and by the time of this  post…
 No Man's Land,  Gods and Monsters,  and Forty and Eight.

"#Haiyan has reached perfection…
  8.0 on the Dvorak intensity scale."

Spell  "chrysanthemum."

"And behold, a white horse." — Johnny Cash

See also references to such a horse here.

The title, that of a novel by Arthur Koestler,
has appeared before in this journal.

The title was quoted in a Log24 note of
May 29, 2002 (G.K. Chesterton's birthday).

The link in Saturday evening's post to a Chesterton
essay suggested a further search that yielded
the following quotation—

Then silence sank. And slowly
      Arose the sea-land lord
Like some vast beast for mystery,
He filled the room and porch and sky,
And from a cobwebbed nail on high
      Unhooked his heavy sword.

— G. K. Chesterton,
   The Ballad of the White Horse

This, together with some Log24 remarks 
from 2004, suggests two images—

Above: A 1955 cover design by Robert Flynn.

The arrow theme also appears in a figure from
John Sealander's Road to Nowhere in the 2004
remarks:

The remarks quoting the Sealander image, from 
March 5, 2004, were on mathematics and narrative.

Related material from a year later:

See an announcement, saved from March 16, 2005,
of a conference on mathematics and narrative that
was held in July 2005. Some context: Koestler's novel.

See Josh Lederman's AP story on this year's
colorful White House Halloween decorations.
Orange and black are also the Princeton colors.
See as well The Crosswicks Curse.

For Mike Nichols…

Scene I:

"Pinter's particular usage of reverse chronology 
in structuring the plot is innovative…."

— Wikipedia on the play "Betrayal," a version of which
    opens tonight

Scene II:

Reverse Chronology in Wikipedia —

"As a hypothetical example, if the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk 
was told using reverse chronology, the opening scene would depict
Jack chopping the beanstalk down and killing the giant. The next
scene would feature Jack being discovered by the giant and climbing
down the beanstalk in fear of his life. Later, we would see Jack running
into the man with the infamous magic beans, then, at the end of the film,
being sent off by his mother to sell the cow."

Scene III:

Dialogue for Scene III — 

"Sell the damn cow, Jack."

Epilogue:  Jack + Jill.

(Continued. For the title, see Lucero  in this journal.)

See Newton in several works of literary art:

• Dürrenmatt's The Physicists  (spoiler alert)
• Newton at a Royal Wedding in Westminster Abbey
• Sicilian Reflections

The date, Nov. 23, 2010, of the Westminster Abbey remarks
in the second Newton link above suggests a quite different church 
​from that date.