Wiktionary —
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Russian noun . . .
тетра́дь • (tetrádʹ) f inan
Etymology
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See also Tetrad in this journal.
Monday, February 20, 2017
Tetrad
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Mathematics and Narrative
Mathematics —
Hudson's parametrization of the
4×4 square, published in 1905:
A later parametrization, from this date in 1986:
A note from later in 1986 shows the equivalence of these
two parametrizations:
Narrative —
Posts tagged Memory-History-Geometry.
The mathematically challenged may prefer the narrative of the
Creation Matrix from the religion of the Transformers:
"According to religious legend, the core of the Matrix
was created from Solomus, the god of wisdom,
trapped in the form of a crystal by Mortilus, the god
of death. Following the defeat of Mortilus, Solomus
managed to transform his crystal prison into the Matrix—
a conduit for the energies of Primus, who had himself
transformed into the life-giving computer Vector Sigma."
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At 3:33*
* A reference to a line in a poem in a novel
by Katherine Neville, The Eight (1988)
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Sunday, February 19, 2017
Cast
"La morte è avvenuta alle 22.30 di ieri sera nella sua abitazione."
— http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2016/02/20/news/
morto_lo_scrittore_umberto_eco-133816061/
See also the previous post, "Radical."
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Radical
Book from 1969 by the late Michael Novak —
Science demonstrator in Boston today —
See as well Galois Imaginary in this journal.
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Ships That Pass in the Night
… Namely, Scholarship and Showmanship (previous post)
"The suffix '-schaft ' (cognate with the English '-ship ')
can be added to nouns…."
— http://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/
Grammatik/Wortbildung/Suffixes.html
For instance —
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"… I’d rely on the old sociological distinction between gemeinschaft and gesellschaft . All across the world, we have masses of voters who live in a world of gemeinschaft : where relationships are personal, organic and fused by particular affections. These people define their loyalty to community, faith and nation in personal, in-the-gut sort of ways. But we have a leadership class and an experience of globalization that is from the world of gesellschaft : where systems are impersonal, rule based, abstract, indirect and formal." — David Brooks, New York Times columnist, Jan. 20, 2017 |
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Saturday, February 18, 2017
Not Strange Enough?
Peter Woit today discusses a book by one Zeeya Merali:
Some earlier remarks by Merali:
Zeeya Merali in Nature on 28 August 2013 —
"… a small band of researchers who think that
the usual ideas are not yet strange enough.
If nothing else, they say, neither of the two great
pillars of modern physics — general relativity,
which describes gravity as a curvature of space
and time, and quantum mechanics, which governs
the atomic realm — gives any account for
the existence of space and time.
. . . .
'All our experiences tell us we shouldn't have two
dramatically different conceptions of reality —
there must be one huge overarching theory,' says
Abhay Ashtekar, a physicist at Pennsylvania State
University in University Park."
See as well Overarching and Doctor Strange in this journal.
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Solid Symmetry (continued)
See Hanks + Cube in this journal … For instance …
Friday, July 11, 2014
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Fluid Requiem
Remarks on fluidity and lucrative ventures in
yesterday evening's post Transformers suggest
a reading in memory of a Catholic philosopher
who reportedly died yesterday at 83 —
Psalm 22: "I am poured out like water . . . ."
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Verbum
The Log24 version (Nov. 9, 2005, and later posts) —
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VERBUM
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See also related material in the previous post, Transformers.
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