From this journal on April 2, 2019 —
Cover design by Greg Stadnyk, available in an animated gif.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
For Those Who Prefer Spheres to Cubes . . .
Comments Off on For Those Who Prefer Spheres to Cubes . . .
For the Still Point: “Congregated Light”
An instance of T. S. Eliot's poetic "still point" is the
center of a 3x3x3 Galois cube made up of 27 subcubes …
Not Rubik's puzzle, whose center is a mere mechanical contrivance.
Associated with that Galois cube is the set of
13 symmetry axes of its central subcube.
The figure above is not unrelated to the so-called "free will theorem."
Mathematician Peter J. Cameron's recent quotation of St. Bernard*
on free will and grace, while not impressive as a philosophical
statement, is at least preferable to the TV sitcom "Will and Grace."
See also the notion of free will in other posts tagged "Congregated Light."
Some context: Tom Wolfe, below, on the word "clerisy." It seems that the
word applies to many academics besides those in areas named by Wolfe.
* Vide http://www.catholictradition.org/Tradition/efficacious-grace3.htm#67 —
"De gratia et Libero arbitrio, chaps. 1 and 14."
Comments Off on For the Still Point: “Congregated Light”
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Throwing Shapes
A book I saw in a Harvard Square bookstore
in the early 1960s … The same store in which
I saw The Shape of Time —
Looking for "an easier, softer way"? Try a different Perlis . . .
Comments Off on Throwing Shapes
