"Andy kind of set the model . . ."
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Saturday, May 11, 2024
The Thesis Advisor
"And so I had an idea, which turned out to be
related to that question, and so it was a little theorem
that I proved and I showed it to my thesis advisor, and
then he said, 'Oh, that could maybe help with this question.'
And he told me the question. And I said, 'Oh that's right,
maybe it could.' But he said, 'But don't work on that.'
He says, 'Borel has worked on that, Singer has worked
on that, a lot of people have tried to do this without success.'
But that has just got me fired up. And so I solved that problem…."
— The late James H. Simons, on his thesis advisor Bertram Kostant.
The thesis advisor reportedly died on Groundhog Day, 2017.
See as well, in this journal, Facets for Snorri.
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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
“Midnight Sun” Link
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Monday, January 8, 2024
The Star Brick
From a post of January 3, 2024 —
"Hello darkness, my old friend.
I’ve come to talk with you again."
The above image was flipped to reverse left and right.
Related reading: Other posts tagged Darkness and …
Related material: Other posts tagged Star Brick and . . .
"And we may see the meadow in December,
icy white and crystalline"
— Song lyric, "Midnight Sun"
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Friday, November 26, 2021
Facets for Snorri
(Who is Snorri? See The Reykjavik Grapevine , Oct. 3, 2018.)
"Faced with a larger surface than he had ever provided with facets,
in his desperation he had divided the diamond with imaginary lines,
treating each section as if it were a single small stone and arranging
the clusters of facets so they would interact with one another, as if they
were single facets in a smaller stone. What if the final result lacked fire?"
— A novel* by Noah Gordon, who reportedly died on Monday, Nov. 22.
Related material from Log24 on Feb. 17, 2017 —
Also on Feb. 17, 2017 —
* The Jerusalem Diamond , Random House, April 1, 1979,
republished later in German as Der Diamant des Salomon .
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