Flashback suggested by a New York Times obituary today . . .
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
A Sunday Sermon: Math Noir
From this journal last Sunday morning . . .
From this journal this morning . . .
"In conclusion: what an axiomatic presentation of a piece of mathematics
conceals is at least as relevant to the understanding of mathematics
as what an axiomatic presentation pretends to state." — Gian-Carlo Rota
As for noir . . .
Consider how Apple TV recently created "brutal, exaggerated worlds
that originated in actual locations" and also created a villainous
private company named Axiom .
Some relevant history of mathematics . . .
"The bond with reality is cut." — Freudenthal on axiomatics .
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The Doctor Who Kool-Aid
On Monday, March 10, 2025, The New York Times
reported a Sunday, March 9, death —
Simon Fisher-Becker, Actor in
‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Doctor Who,’
Dies at 63
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Monday, March 10, 2025
Friday, August 4, 2017
Clay
Landon T. Clay, founder of the Clay Mathematics Institute,
reportedly died on Saturday, July 29, 2017.
See related Log24 posts, now tagged Prize Problem,
from the date of Clay's death and the day before.
Update of 9 PM ET on August 4, 2017 —
Other mathematics discussed here on the date of Clay's death —
MSRI Program. Here MSRI is pronounced "Misery."
Update of 9:45 PM ET on August 4, 2017 —
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
Science News
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Friday, July 28, 2017
Prize Problem
The last page of a novel published on Sept. 2, 2014 —
Related material —
The 2017 film Gifted presents a different approach to the Navier-Stokes
problem.
The figure below perhaps represents the above novel 's Millennium Prize
winner reacting, in the afterlife, to the film 's approach in Gifted .
Bustle online magazine last April —
Gifted ’s Millennium Prize Problems
Are Real & They Will Hurt Your Brain
By JOHNNY BRAYSON Apr 11 2017
See also other news from the above Bustle date — April 11, 2017.
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Creeds
From a novel featuring the Navier-Stokes problem —
A search for "Creed" in this journal yields
a different sort of Shiva —
For further reviews, click on the Penguin below.
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Aesthetic Distance
In memory of a Disney "imagineer" who reportedly died yesterday.
From the opening scene of a 2017 film, "Gifted":
Frank calls his niece Mary to breakfast on the morning she is
to enter first grade. She is dressed, for the first time, for school —
- Hey! Come on. Let's move! - No! - Let me see. - No. - Come on, I made you special breakfast. - You can't cook. - Hey, Mary, open up. (She opens her door and walks out.) - You look beautiful. - I look like a Disney character. Where's the special? - What? - You said you made me special breakfast. Read more: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/ movie_script.php?movie=gifted |
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