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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Art for Nihilists

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:45 pm

"I am serious about my study. I am a distinguished professor of mathematics at Brown University, though I have not for decades concerned myself with arithmetic, calculus, matrices, theorems, Hausdorff spaces, finite lattice representations, or anything else that involves values or numbers or representations of values or numbers or any such somethings, whether they have substance or not. I have spent my career in my little office on George Street in Providence contemplating and searching for nothing. I have not found it."

Everett, Percival. Dr. No: A Novel  (p. 6).
Graywolf Press. Kindle Edition, November 1, 2022.

Philosophy Painted Black

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:51 pm

From a New York Times  obituary today . . .

"Armed with his work on the German phenomenologist Edmund Husserl,
in his late 20s and early 30s Mr. Hountondji undertook to confront head-on
'Bantu Philosophy,' a book by a Belgian missionary priest, Placide Tempels…."

Belgian Puzzle Art

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:33 pm

From the Belgian artist of the March 25 New Yorker  cover

'The Resort' S1E5 - Shapes Puzzle

“There comes a time when the learner has identified
the abstract content of a number of different games
and is practically crying out for some sort of picture
by means of which to represent that which has been
gleaned as the common core of the various activities.”

— Article  at Zoltan Dienes’s website

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

“If It’s Tuesday…”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:14 pm

https://www.sadanduseless.com/adam-douglas-thompson/

Monday, January 22, 2024

Box Geometry

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:33 am

From a search in this journal for "Box of Nothing" —

"And the Führer digs for trinkets in the desert."

 

From a related search, for "Ghent Links" —

Related art —


More seriously See Box759.

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Heart of Darkness

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:53 pm

For some, yesterday was just another Maniac Monday.

Today being Tuesday  suggests a Belgium-related search
in this journal . . .

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Conrad+Darkness.

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Notes Toward a Ghent Altarpiece

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 4:12 am

From Prof. Dr. Koen Thas at the University of Ghent on 13 Dec. 2017 —

From this  journal on that same date — 13 Dec. 2017 —

Related material for fans of synchronology — both from Nov. 3, 2009 —

Nightlight  and  Summa Mythologica .

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

If It’s Tuesday …

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:04 pm

Continued.

Antwerp Chevrons

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

If It’s Tuesday . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:54 pm

See Antwerp in this journal…

Art related to a different location in Belgium —

Friday, October 27, 2023

Blank Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:37 pm

The Ghent Altarpiece version —

A Taylor Swift version —

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

“If It’s Tuesday…” Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:33 pm

A nihilist altarpiece, from other posts tagged "Ghent Links" —

Some will prefer the "Better to light one candle" philosophy and . . .

Candle from Sense8, Season 1,  Episode 1: “Limbic Resonance” —

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Tuesday… Belgium.

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

The inscape  in the previous post suggests a review of
work by the Belgian mathematician Koen Thas on what
might be called the "quantum tesseract theorem."

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:19 am

Art Space: The Missing Links

Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Tags:  — m759 @ 4:07 PM

Related material:  "Ducky" died,  Circle Zen,  Palmervision

Monday, August 28, 2023

The Missing Links

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:45 pm

For the missing links?

The links page is still available on the Internet Archive.

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Antwerp Revisited: Diamond Space

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:15 am

The opening of the new Netflix film FUBAR suggests a review . . . 

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Outside the White Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:01 pm

      

"Remember, remember the fifth of November"

  — Hugo Weaving in 2005

"If it's Tuesday . . ."

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

The Amsterdam Connection

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:22 am

Some mathematics from Ghent —

Koen Thas, 'Unextendible Mututally Unbiased Bases' (2016)

Earlier, in Amsterdam . . .

First page of 'Configurations in Quantum Mechanics,' by E.M. Bruins, 1959

See as well Dirac and Geometry.

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Blackboard Jungle Continues.

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 6:19 pm

From the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle" —

From a trailer for the recent film version of A Wrinkle in Time

Detail of the phrase "quantum tesseract theorem":

From the 1962 book —

"There's something phoney
in the whole setup, Meg thought.
There is definitely something rotten
in the state of Camazotz."

Related mathematics from Koen Thas that some might call a
"quantum tesseract theorem" —

Some background —

Koen Thas, 'Unextendible Mututally Unbiased Bases' (2016)

See also posts tagged Dirac and Geometry. For more
background on finite  geometry, see a web page
at Thas's institution, Ghent University.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Logos

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:00 am

Continued from All Hallows Eve

The Belgian Lottery logo

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11C/111104-BelgianLotteryLogo-256w.jpg

The Belgian Lottery was a sponsor of 
last month's 25th Solvay Conference —

"The Theory of the Quantum World,"
  Brussels, October 19-22, 2011.

See also this journal in October and Change Logos

http://www.log24.com/log/pix09/090309-SqInSpace2.jpg

(Physicists will recognize the kinship
with the coat of arms of Niels Bohr.)

Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Wednesday June 1, 2005

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:20 pm
The Road to Brussels


“History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.”

 — Henry Kissinger, quoted in
     Drama of the Diagonal, Part Deux

Les livres d’histoire et la vie
racontent la même comédie….

Alain Boublil


Wellington at Waterloo


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livgenmi.com/gardiner85.htm 


“Along the road from Ohain to Braine-l’Alleud that hemmed in the plain of Mont-St-Jean and cut at right angles the road to Brussels, which the Emperor wished to take, he [Wellington] had placed 67,000 men and 184 cannons.” Fr. Libert, Waterloo

The Emperor’s Welcome

From Expatriate Online:
Your Bookmark to Belgium

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Wednesday, April 9, 2003

Wednesday April 9, 2003

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:25 am

Hearts of Darkness

Today's birthdays:

Charles Baudelaire, poet, b. 1821

Leopold II, King of Belgium, b. 1835

Tom Lehrer, mathematician, b. 1928

In view of these birthdays and of yesterday's entry quoting Eliot on "the Shadow," the following trilogy of links seems appropriate:

The Lamont Cranston:

Part I   Part II   Part III

Nota bene:

Today is also the birthday of
Paul Robeson and J. William Fulbright,
shadows to respect.

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