… de la Iglesia
See Jan. 16-18, 2008, on poetry in Spanish
and the death of chess champion Bobby Fischer.
Note also yesterday evening's post and the date
Jan. 18, 2008, in the following Google search sidebar:
The film of The Oxford Murders was first released on Jan. 18,
2008, in Spain. Its premiere was in Madrid on the preceding day,
which was also the day of Bobby Fischer's death.
Steen reportedly died on Sunday, June 21, 2015.
This was the day of the most recent post in
the "High White Noon" series.
(As opposed to the previous post.)
Today is the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.
A reading from a parish named for them,
dated September 20, 2014 —
See also this journal on the above date — Sept. 20, 2014.
1985 — Church window in "Broken Wings" music video —
For Kristen Wiig, whose performances
give a new meaning to the phrase "flying fuck."
2015 — NASA video of June 28 Falcon 9 launch —
The title is that of a classic 1968 New Yorker essay
by George Steiner. See previous posts on this topic.
"It is as if one were to condense
all trends of present day mathematics
onto a single finite structure…."
— Gian-Carlo Rota, foreword to
A Source Book in Matroid Theory ,
Joseph P.S. Kung, Birkhäuser, 1986
"There is such a thing as a matroid."
— Saying adapted from a novel by Madeleine L'Engle
Related remarks from Mathematics Magazine in 2009 —
See also the eightfold cube —
.
For TD Arena …
See also Lincoln Alexander and posts in
this journal just before and on the date of
Alexander's death — Oct. 19, 2012.
* For the title, see Spielfeld posts.
Do you know where your watch is?
From a post of May 13, 2015 —
From the recent film "Interstellar" —
In keeping with the resurrection themes of the
previous post and of "Plan 9 from Outer Space,"
here is a link to the soundtrack of "Field of Dreams."
Related material:
A post of March 11, 2014, on
truth, cornfields, and Rebecca Goldstein —
Dark Fields of the Republic.
R.I.P., James Horner.
Rebecca Goldstein, the author mentioned in
the previous two posts, spoke at Santa Fe Institute
on Easter Monday, April 9, 2012.
This journal on that date:
The Santa Fe Institute logo, together with the previous post,
suggests a review of Whirligig and Quaternion for Goldstein.
The previous post's link to The Lindbergh Manifesto
and Thursday's post on Basel-born artist Wolf Barth
suggest the following —
See as well a June 14 New York Times
piece on Art Basel.
The logo of the University of Basel …
… suggests a review of The Holy Field —
.
There is such a thing as geometry.*
* Proposition adapted from A Wrinkle in Time , by Madeleine L'Engle.
The star of the new film "Chappie" is on tour.
(Continued from Feb. 3, 2015)
The above artist Wolf Barth is not the same person
as the mathematician Wolf Barth quoted in the
previous post. For further background on the artist, see
an article in Neue Zürcher Zeitung from Nov. 15, 2013.
The title of the previous post, "Slow Art," is a phrase
of the late art critic Robert Hughes.
Example from mathematics:
Click the Barth passage to see it with its surrounding text.
Related material:
Slowness is sometimes in the eye of the beholder.
See this journal on Slow Art Day 2015.
Related material: Epistemic States in this journal.
See that phrase in this journal.
See also last night's post.
The Greek letter Ω is customarily used to
denote a set that is acted upon by a group.
If the group is the affine group of 322,560
transformations of the four-dimensional
affine space over the two-element Galois
field, the appropriate Ω is the 4×4 grid above.
… was added to the Wikipedia article Finite geometry.
(Shown above is a slightly newer image, changed to reflect
the Wikipedia article's remarks on the schoolgirl problem.)
On a former LA Times editor who reportedly died today at 73 —
"Richard Masland, who grew up with Carroll, described
his friend as a mediocre student who enjoyed midnight
raids on auto junkyards and other mischief.
But, Masland noted, he 'was never the front man.
He let other people actually do the raising of hell.'"
( Continued )
Log24 on January 31, 2015 —Spellbound (continued)The New York Times this morning, in an “… the first known crossword puzzle appeared in See St. Nicholas magazine, November 1874, p. 59 :
|
On that same date …
| The Seattle Times , Feb. 8, 2015, updated Feb. 12—
“… you begin by filling in the missing words Dice, yAhtzee, woN, yahTzee, twicE; The capital letters help to show what comes next, You take the first letter of the first inserted word, |
See also two other dates, June 3, 2015, and June 10, 2015,
in this journal and in the life of the puzzle author.
The date of the puzzle’s answer, Feb. 8, 2015, is also
not without interest.
“Click on fanciful .”
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