"Specifically, on May 6 of this year …." …
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Monday, May 6, 2019
Possibilities
Related material — The last three posts —
The Crimson Abyss,
Transgressive Politics at Harvard, and
"Thousand" Rhetoric
— as well as Saturday's The Chinese Jars of Shing-Tung Yau.
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Sunday, May 5, 2019
“Thousand” Rhetoric
Compare and contrast —
"A Thousand Possibilities"
— Title of a Harvard Crimson May 3 column
See also The Thousand in this journal.
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Transgressive Politics at Harvard
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The Crimson Abyss
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Saturday, May 4, 2019
The Chinese Jars of Shing-Tung Yau
The title refers to Calabi-Yau spaces.
Four Quartets
. . . Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness.
A less "cosmic" but still noteworthy code — The Golay code.
This resides in a 12-dimensional space over GF(2).
Related material from Plato and R. T. Curtis —
A related Calabi-Yau "Chinese jar" first described in detail in 1905 —
A figure that may or may not be related to the 4x4x4 cube that
holds the classical Chinese "cosmic code" — the I Ching —
ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/hanson/forSha/AK3/old/K3-pix.pdf
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