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A Story That Works
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The above Leiber remarks appeared here on December 14, 2005.
They are reposted in memory of the author known as Trevanian,
who reportedly died on that date. He wrote about, and for a time
lived in, the Basque Country.
See also the Basque Country in this journal.
Found on the Web today —
Earlier . . .
Thursday, August 10, 2023
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Related entertainment starring Martin Freeman —
Related Art —
See as well The Diamond Theorem in Basque Country
for material from the University of the Basque Country,
an offshoot of the University of Bilbao (in Basque, "Bilbo").
Book description at Amazon.com, translated by Google —
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Las matemáticas como herramienta
Mathematics as a tool by Raúl Ibáñez Torres Kindle edition in Spanish, 2023 Although the relationship between mathematics and art can be traced back to ancient times, mainly in geometric and technical aspects, it is with the arrival of the avant-garde and abstract art at the beginning of the 20th century that mathematics takes on greater and different relevance: as a source of inspiration and as a tool for artistic creation. Let us think, for example, of the importance of the fourth dimension for avant-garde movements or, starting with Kandisnky and later Max Bill and concrete art, the vindication of mathematical thinking in artistic creation. An idea that would have a fundamental influence on currents such as constructivism, minimalism, the fluxus movement, conceptual art, systematic art or optical art, among others. Following this approach, this book analyzes, through a variety of examples and activities, how mathematics is present in contemporary art as a creative tool. And it does so through five branches and the study of some of its mathematical topics: geometry (the Pythagorean theorem), topology (the Moebius strip), algebra (algebraic groups and matrices), combinatorics (permutations and combinations) and recreational mathematics (magic and Latin squares). |
From the book ("Cullinane Diamond Theorem" heading and picture of
book's cover added) —
Publisher: Los Libros de La Catarata (October 24, 2023)
Author: Raúl Ibáñez Torres, customarily known as Raúl Ibáñez
(Ibáñez does not mention Cullinane as the author of the above theorem
in his book (except indirectly, quoting Josefine Lyche), but he did credit
him fully in an earlier article, "The Truchet Tiles and the Diamond Puzzle"
(translation by Google).)
About Ibáñez (translated from Amazon.com by Google):
Mathematician, professor of Geometry at the University of the Basque Country
and scientific disseminator. He is part of the Chair of Scientific Culture of the
UPV/EHU and its blog Cuaderno de Cultura Cientifica. He has been a scriptwriter
and presenter of the program “Una de Mates” on the television program Órbita Laika.
He has collaborated since 2005 on the programs Graffiti and La mechanica del caracol
on Radio Euskadi. He has also been a collaborator and co-writer of the documentary
Hilos de tiempo (2020) about the artist Esther Ferrer. For 20 years he directed the
DivulgaMAT portal, Virtual Center for the Dissemination of Mathematics, and was a
member of the dissemination commission of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.
Author of several books, including The Secrets of Multiplication (2019) and
The Great Family of Numbers (2021), in the collection Miradas Matemáticas (Catarata).
He has received the V José María Savirón Prize for Scientific Dissemination
(national modality, 2010) and the COSCE Prize for the Dissemination of Science (2011).
See also Shibumi Continues — June 29, 2022.
Related reading:
Shibumi: A Novel
and
"The Diamond Theorem
in Basque Country."
Translated by Google as . . .
The Truchet Tiles and the Diamond Puzzle and
The Art of the Simple Truchet Tile.
About the author:
Raúl Ibáñez is a professor in the Department of Mathematics
at the UPV/EHU and collaborator with the Chair of Scientific Culture.
About his school:
The University of the Basque Country
(Basque: Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, EHU ;
Spanish: Universidad del País Vasco, UPV ; UPV/EHU)
is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community.
— Wikipedia
Strange Attractor
(See also the star as a
"spider" symbol in the
stories of Fritz Leiber.)
For Heinrich Harrer,
who died today…
Wikipedia on the north face of the Eiger:
"A portion of the upper face is called 'The White Spider,' as snow-filled cracks radiating from an ice-field resemble the legs of a spider. Harrer used the name for the title of his book about his successful climb, Die Weisse Spinne (translated… as The White Spider)."
"Connoisseur of Chaos,"
by Wallace Stevens,
from Parts of a World (1942):
III
After all the pretty contrast of life and death
Proves that these opposite things partake of one,
At least that was the theory, when bishops' books
Resolved the world. We cannot go back to that.
The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind,
If one may say so . And yet relation appears,
A small relation expanding like the shade
Of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of a hill.
V
The pensive man . . . He sees that eagle float
For which the intricate Alps are a single nest.
Related material:
The Meadow
"Heaven– Where Is It?
How Do We Get There?"
To air on ABC
Tuesday, Dec. 20
(John Spencer's birthday)
By Trevanian, who died on
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005:
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From
Shibumi "Well… the flow of the play was just right, and it began to bring me to the meadow. It always begins with some kind of flowing motion… a stream or river, maybe the wind making waves in a field of ripe rice, the glitter of leaves moving in a breeze, clouds flowing by. And for me, if the structure of the Go stones is flowing classically, that too can bring me to the meadow." "The meadow?" "Yes. That's the place I expand into. It's how I recognize that I am resting." "Is it a real meadow?" "Yes, of course." "A meadow you visited at one time? A place in your memory?" "It's not in my memory. I've never been there when I was diminished." "Diminished?" "You know… when I'm in my body and not resting." "You consider normal life to be a diminished state, then?" "I consider time spent at rest to be normal. Time like this… temporary, and… yes, diminished." "Tell me about the meadow, Nikko." "It is triangular. And it slopes uphill, away from me. The grass is tall. There are no animals. Nothing has ever walked on the grass or eaten it. There are flowers, a breeze… warm. Pale sky. I'm always glad to be the grass again." "You are the grass?" "We are one another. Like the breeze, and the yellow sunlight. We're all… mixed in together." "I see. I see. Your description of the mystic experience resembles others I have read. And this meadow is what the writers call your 'gateway' or 'path.' Do you ever think of it in those terms?" "No." "So. What happens then?" "Nothing. I am at rest. I am everywhere at once. And everything is unimportant and delightful. And then… I begin to diminish. I separate from the sunlight and the meadow, and I contract again back into my bodyself. And the rest is over." Nicholai smiled uncertainly. "I suppose I am not describing it very well, Teacher. It's not… the kind of thing one describes." "No, you describe it very well, Nikko. You have evoked a memory in me that I had almost lost. Once or twice when I was a child… in summer, I think… I experienced brief transports such as you describe. I read once that most people have occasional mystic experiences when they are children, but soon outgrow them. And forget them…." |
"And we may see
the meadow in December,
icy white and crystalline."
"…that ineffable constellation of talents that makes the player of rank: a gift for conceiving abstract schematic possibilities; a sense of mathematical poetry in the light of which the infinite chaos of probability and permutation is crystallized under the pressure of intense concentration into geometric blossoms; the ruthless focus of force on the subtlest weakness of an opponent."
— Trevanian,
Shibumi
'Even black has various subtle shades,' Sosuke nodded."
— Yasunari Kawabata,
The Old Capital
"The Zen disciple sits for long hours silent and motionless, with his eyes closed. Presently he enters a state of impassivity, free from all ideas and all thoughts. He departs from the self and enters the realm of nothingness. This is not the nothingness or the emptiness of the West. It is rather the reverse, a universe of the spirit in which everything communicates freely with everything, transcending bounds, limitless."
— Yasunari Kawabata,
Nobel lecture, 1968
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Fade to Black "…that ineffable constellation of talents that makes the player of rank: a gift for conceiving abstract schematic possibilities; a sense of mathematical poetry in the light of which the infinite chaos of probability and permutation is crystallized under the pressure of intense concentration into geometric blossoms; the ruthless focus of force on the subtlest weakness of an opponent." — Trevanian, Shibumi "'Haven't there been splendidly elegant colors in Japan since ancient times?' 'Even black has various subtle shades,' Sosuke nodded." — Yasunari Kawabata, The Old Capital
An Ad Reinhardt painting
Ad Reinhardt,
The viewer may need to tilt "The grid is a staircase to the Universal…. We could think about Ad Reinhardt, who, despite his repeated insistence that 'Art is art,' ended up by painting a series of… nine-square grids in which the motif that inescapably emerges is a Greek cross. 
Greek Cross There is no painter in the West who can be unaware of the symbolic power of the cruciform shape and the Pandora's box of spiritual reference that is opened once one uses it."
— Rosalind Krauss,
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In memory of
St. William Golding
(Sept. 19, 1911 – June 19, 1993)
The above link is in memory of
Iris Chang,
who ended her life at 36
on Nov. 9, 2004.
A central concept of Zen
is satori, or "awakening."
For a rude awakening, see
Satori at Pearl Harbor.
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Fade to Black
See, too, my entries of "…that ineffable constellation of talents that makes the player of rank: a gift for conceiving abstract schematic possibilities; a sense of mathematical poetry in the light of which the infinite chaos of probability and permutation is crystallized under the pressure of intense concentration into geometric blossoms; the ruthless focus of force on the subtlest weakness of an opponent." — Trevanian, Shibumi
" 'Haven't there been splendidly elegant colors in Japan since ancient times?' 'Even black has various subtle shades,' Sosuke nodded.' " — Yasunari Kawabata, The Old Capital
An Ad Reinhardt painting
Ad Reinhardt,
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For All Time
"… and the Wichita lineman is still on the line…"
(Reflection on a member of the Radcliffe Class of 1964 who lived near Wichita and now has her own home page… While listening to a song on my "home on The Range – KHYI 95.3FM, Plano, Texas.")
Readings for a seminar we never really finished:
"…that ineffable constellation of talents that makes the player of rank: a gift for conceiving abstract schematic possibilities; a sense of mathematical poetry in the light of which the infinite chaos of probability and permutation is crystallized under the pressure of intense concentration into geometric blossoms; the ruthless focus of force on the subtlest weakness of an opponent."
— Trevanian, Shibumi
" 'Haven't there been splendidly elegant colors in Japan since ancient times?'
'Even black has various subtle shades,' Sosuke nodded.' "
— Yasunari Kawabata, The Old Capital
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