"Sean Kelly, a wry master of literary and musical parodies
who helped infuse National Lampoon with the sharp-edged
and often crude humor it became known for, died on July 11
in Manhattan. He was 81."
— Richard Sandomir in the online New York Times today
This journal on July 11 —
Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard, May 25, 2017 —
"No one writes math formulas on glass. That’s not a thing."
Mark Zuckerberg in a commencement speech
at Harvard yesterday —
"Movies and pop culture get this all wrong.
The idea of a single eureka moment
is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate
since we haven’t had ours. It prevents people
with seeds of good ideas from getting started.
Oh, you know what else movies get wrong about
innovation? No one writes math formulas on glass.
That’s not a thing."
The Thing from Taormina —
" The origin of new ways of doing things may often be
a disciplinary crisis. The definition of such a crisis
provided by Barry Mazur in Mykonos (2005) applies
equally well to literary creation. '[A crisis occurs] when
some established overarching framework, theoretical
vocabulary or procedure of thought is perceived as
inadequate in an essential way, or not meaning
what we think it means.' "
— Circles Disturbed :
The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative
Edited by Apostolos Doxiadis & Barry Mazur
Princeton University Press, 2012. See
Chapter 14, Section 5.1, by Uri Margolin.
See also "overarching" in this journal.
Anne Taormina on Mathieu Moonshine —
This is, of course, the same group (of order 322,560) underlying the Diamond 16 Puzzle.
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