Variations on the title theme —
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Unity Game
“Old men ought to be explorers.” — T. S. Eliot
“Everybody’s lost but me!” — Young Indiana Jones, quoted
in a book review (“Knox Peden on Martin Hägglund”) in
Sydney Review of Books on May 26 . . .
” Here I am reminded of the words of
the young Indiana Jones alone in the desert,
decades before the Last Crusade:
‘Everybody’s lost but me.’ “
Related remarks — Now You See It, Now You Don’t.
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Finite Geometry at GitHub
My website on finite geometry is now available
on GitHub at http://m759.github.io/ . The part
of greatest interest to coders is also at
https://repl.it/@m759/View-4x4x4#index.html .
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Friday, May 8, 2020
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Now You See It, Now You Don’t
“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
Illustrations, from the American Mathematical Society Spring
2020 book sale, of a book scheduled to be published May 28.
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