Illustration for "Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism"
(By Alma Steingart, University of Chicago Press, 2023).
The illustration and its caption are from an article by Ernst Gombrich
in The Atlantic, April 1958.
But seriously . . . For Calvin University —
“Anomalies must be expected along the conceptual frontier
between the temporal and the eternal.”
— The Death of Adam, by Marilynne Robinson, Houghton Mifflin,
1998, essay on Marguerite de Navarre.
“D’exterieur en l’interieur entre
Qui va par moi, et au milieu du centre
Me trouvera, qui suis le point unique,
La fin, le but de la mathematique;
Le cercle suis dont toute chose vient,
Le point ou tout retourne et se maintient.”
— Marguerite de Navarre
From this journal on March 7, 2003 —
Chez Mondrian
Kertész, Paris, 1926