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Thursday, April 19, 2018

Something to Behold

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:45 pm

From a review of a Joyce Carol Oates novel
at firstthings.com on August 23, 2013 —

"Though the Curse is eventually exorcised,
it is through an act of wit and guile,
not an act of repentance or reconciliation.
And so we may wonder if Oates has put this story
to rest, or if it simply lays dormant. A twenty-first
century eruption of the 'Crosswicks Curse
would be something to behold." [Link added.]

Related material —

A film version of A Wrinkle in Time

The Hamilton watch from "Interstellar" (2014) —

See also a post, Vacant Space, from 8/23/13 (the date
of the above review), and posts tagged Space Writer.

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Excited

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:48 pm

"How do you  get young people excited about space?"

— Megan Garber in The Atlantic , Aug. 16, 2012

The above quote is from this  journal  on 9/11, 2014.

Related material —

Synchronology for the above date — 9/11, 2014 —

A BuzzFeed article with that date, and in reply

"A Personal Statement from Michael Shermer" with that date.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Child Buyers

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 10:00 pm

The title refers to a classic 1960 novel by John Hersey.

“How do you  get young people excited about space?”

— Megan Garber in The Atlantic , Aug. 16, 2012
(Italics added.) (See previous four posts.)

Allyn Jackson on “Simplicity, in Mathematics and in Art,”
in the new August 2013 issue of Notices of the American
Mathematical Society

“As conventions evolve, so do notions of simplicity.
Franks mentioned Gauss’s 1831 paper that
established the respectability of complex numbers.”

This suggests a related image by Gauss, with a
remark on simplicity—

IMAGE- Complex Grid, by Gauss

Here Gauss’s diagram is not, as may appear at first glance,
a 3×3 array of squares, but is rather a 4×4 array of discrete
points (part of an infinite plane array).

Related material that does  feature the somewhat simpler 3×3 array
of squares, not  seen as part of an infinite array—

Marketing the Holy Field

IMAGE- The Ninefold Square, in China 'The Holy Field'

Click image for the original post.

For a purely mathematical view of the holy field, see Visualizing GL(2,p).

Space Itself

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 10:18 am

"How do you get young people excited
about space? How do you get them interested
not just in watching movies about space,
or in playing video games set in space
but in space itself?"

Megan Garber in The AtlanticAug. 16, 2012

One approach:

"There is  such a thing as a tesseract" and
Diamond Theory in 1937.

See, too, Baez in this journal.

Tag (Part II)

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:29 am

(Continued from yesterday evening)

Madeleine L'Engle in The Irrational Season
(1977), Chapter 9:

"After A Wrinkle in Time  was finally published,
it was pointed out to me that the villain, a naked
disembodied brain, was called 'It' because It
stands for Intellectual truth as opposed to a truth
which involves the whole of us, heart as well as
mind.  That acronym had never occurred to me. 
I chose the name It intuitively, because an IT
does not have a heart or soul.  And I did not
understand consciously at the time of writing
that the intellect, when it is not informed by
the heart, is evil."

You're…  IT.

Related material: Mathematics as a Post-Communist Activity.

Ay Que Bonito

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:00 am

(Continued)

From Iris Murdoch's novel The Bell 

" 'With an engineer to help me,' said Dora,
'I can do anything.'  And indeed as she
stood there in the moonlight, looking at
the quiet water, she felt as if by the sheer
force of her will she could make the great
bell rise.  After all, and after her own fashion,
she would fight.  In this holy community
she would play the witch."

Monday, July 15, 2013

Tag

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:30 pm

Some recent posts have been added to the Root Circle saga.

Update of 12:13 AM July 16, 2013:

Click the above image for further details. This "every other term"
strategy may be illustrated as in the July 12, 2013, post "Ein Bild "—

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This  image was originally posted on June 5, 2006 at 12:06 AM ET.

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