The remarks of Charles Taylor in the previous post, and
the date — Nov. 4, 2020 — of an article by legal scholar
Chloë Kennedy on deceptive sex that referenced Taylor's
work suggest a look back at a Nov. 4, 2020, post on deceptive
fiction … fiction about the politics of gender, not of sex —
"… it is not just its beauty that has made Mathematics so attractive.
Thirty or so years ago, a philosopher friend of mine remarked
rather dolefully, 'I am afraid that Latin, the knowledge of which
used to be the mark of a civilised person, will be replaced by
Mathematics as the universally accepted mark of learning.'
This was probably the most prescient statement he ever made,
as the importance of Mathematics is now recognised in fields
as diverse as medicine, linguistics, and even literature."
— Address by mathematician Dominic Welsh on June 16, 2006
Some Latin-square images from pure mathematics —
Some related Latin from this journal on June 16, 2006 —
For some remarks on Latin-square structure,
see other posts tagged Affine Squares.
A post today by Peter J. Cameron suggests a review . . .
Meanwhile . . .
See as well "The Contributions of Dominic Welsh
to Matroid Theory," by James Oxley, at
https://www.math.lsu.edu/~oxley/dominic3.pdf.
The previous post suggests a review of
a Log24 post from August 22, 2020 —
From a web page —
From YouTube, for the Church of Synchronology —
For some context, see Holocron in this journal.
The author of A Piece of Justice , a 1995 novel about mathematics
and quilts, has died.
Walsh died on St. Luke's Day. Cf. Luke in this journal.
The previous post (Pathmark Meets Hallmark) suggests
a review of the Waymark Prize in mathematics.
"Summerfield, Kummerhenge. Kummerhenge, Summerfield."
The phrase "ghostly heptagons" appears in A Piece of Justice , a 1995 novel
by Jill Paton Walsh that features some fictional politically correct mathematics.
(See the previous post.)
Related material from a Google search today —
The Ivanov book is new:
For Bent Larsen, Danish chess Grandmaster, who died on Thursday, September 9, 2010—
See also "Patrick Blackburn, meet Gideon Summerfield" in Building a Mystery.
Notes on Mathematics and Narrative, continued
Patrick Blackburn, meet Gideon Summerfield…
From a summary of a politically correct 1995 feminist detective novel about quilts, A Piece of Justice—
The story deals with “one Gideon Summerfield, deceased.” Summerfield, a former tutor at (the fictional) St. Agatha’s College, Cambridge University, “is about to become the recipient of the Waymark prize. This prize is awarded in Mathematics and has the same prestige as the Nobel. Summerfield had a rather lackluster career at St. Agatha’s, with the exception of one remarkable result that he obtained. It is for this result that he is being awarded the prize, albeit posthumously.” Someone is apparently trying to prevent a biography of Summerfield from being published.
Compare and contrast with an episode from the resume of a real Gideon Summerfield—
Head of Strategy, Designer City (May 1999 — January 2002)
Secured Web agency business from new and existing clients with compelling digital media strategies and oversaw delivery of creative, production and technical teams…. Clients included… Greenfingers and Lord of the Dance .
For material related to Greenfingers and Lord of the Dance , see Castle Kennedy Gardens at Wicker Man Locations.
The New York Times
on June 17, 2007:
Design Meets Dance,
and Rules Are Broken
Yesterday's evening entry was
on the fictional sins of a fictional
mathematician and also (via a link
to St. Augustine's Day, 2006), on
the geometry of the I Ching* —
The eternal
combined with
the temporal:
The fictional mathematician's
name, noted here (with the Augustine-
I Ching link as a gloss) in yesterday's
evening entry, was Summerfield.
From the above Times article–
"Summerspace," a work by
choreographer Merce Cunningham
and artist Robert Rauschenberg
that offers a competing
vision of summer:
From left, composer John Cage,
choreographer Merce Cunningham,
and artist Robert Rauschenberg
in the 1960's
"When shall we three meet again?"
Happy Birthday,
Inspector Tennison
(See entries of
November 13, 2006)
Related material
for Prospera:
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“… in 1896 Alfred Nobel,
the inventor of dynamite and
founder of the Nobel prizes,
died in San Remo, Italy,
at age 63.”
— “Today in History,”
by The Associated Press
author and co-producer of
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear.
A Piece of Justice.
From a summary of the novel:
From the current
American Mathematical Society
“Mathematical Imagery” page:
That entry contained an excerpt from
Tom Wolfe’s The Painted Word—
Diamond Theory
and a politically correct
1995 feminist detective novel
about quilts,
From a summary of the novel:
Meanwhile, back in real life…
It is said that the late Ms. Tompkins
liked to work while listening to the
soundtrack of “Saturday Night Fever.”
“It’s just your jive talkin’
you’re telling me lies, yeah
Jive talkin’
you wear a disguise
Jive talkin’
so misunderstood, yeah
Jive talkin’
You really no good”
These lyrics may also serve
to summarize reviews
of Diamond Theory written
in the summer of 2005.
For further details, see
Mathematics and Narrative.
For Bloomsday 2006:
Hero of His Own Story
"The philosophic college should spare a detective for me."
— Stephen Hero. Epigraph to Chapter 2, "Dedalus and the
Beauty Maze," in Joyce and Aquinas, by William T. Noon, S. J.,
Yale University Press, 1957 (in the Yale paperback edition of
1963, page 18)
"Dorothy Sayers makes a great deal of sense when she points out
in her highly instructive and readable book The Mind of the Maker
that 'to complain that man measures God by his own measure is
a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience;
he has no other yardstick.'"
— William T. Noon, S. J., Joyce and Aquinas (in the Yale paperback
edition of 1963, page 106)
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