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Monday, September 13, 2021

Cube Space Revisited

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 3:02 pm

The above Quanta  article mentions

"Maryna Viazovska’s 2016 discovery of the most efficient
ways of packing spheres in dimensions eight and 24."

From a course to be taught by Viazovska next spring:

The Lovasz reference suggests a review of my own webpage
Cube Space, 1984-2003.

See as well a review of Log24 posts on Packing.

Friday, December 4, 2020

German Lesson: Untergang

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:37 pm

The recent posts "Bunker Bingo" and "Here's to Efficient Packing!"
suggest a review.

Alex Ross in The New Yorker  on Dec. 2, 2020, on the German
word "Untergang " —

"The usual translation is 'downfall,' although
the various implications of the word—
literally, “going-under”—are difficult to capture
in English. In some contexts, Untergang  simply
means descent: a sunset is a Sonnenuntergang .

Lauren  German in a 2005 film —

See as well . . .

Here’s to Efficient Packing!

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:19 pm

"Rock music from car . . ." 

'Death Proof' car

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Bunker Bingo

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:59 am

See as well 5×5The Matrix of Abraham,  and Deutsche Schule Montevideo .

IMAGE- Right 3-4-5 triangle with squares on sides and hypotenuse as base

“If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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