https://www.shmoop.com/no-country-for-old-men/coin-symbol.html —
"You know the date on this coin?"
Related material —
This journal on March 7, 2014 —
From Klein’s 1893 Lectures on Mathematics —
“The varieties introduced by Wirtinger may be called
Kummer varieties….” — E. Spanier, 1956
From the "varieties introduced by Wirtinger" link above —
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See the previous post and College of the Desert in this journal.
From the latter, see particularly Slide 69 in Geoff Hagopian's Symmetry.
From a Los Angeles Times piece on Epiphany (Jan. 6), 1988 —
“Some 30 paces east of the spooky old Chateau Marmont is
the intersection of Selma and Sunset Boulevard.” . . . .
“Though it is not much of an intersection, the owner of
the liquor store on that corner might resent that you have
slotted his parking lot in the Twilight Zone. . . .
And directly across Sunset from Selma looking south is
where the infamous Garden of Allah used to stand. . . .”
In memory of two beloved folklorists —
"Iona Opie, a British folklorist who worked with her husband,
Peter, to produce major studies of nursery rhymes as well as
the oral traditions of games, jokes, nicknames, taunts and
pranks among schoolchildren, died on Oct. 23 in the town of
Petersfield, in Hampshire, England. She was 94."
— The New York Times this evening
Scholium on this journal's remarks of October 23 —
"Hello there, Dapper Dan, where were you when …."
The previous post's Lewis Carroll cover,
modified to illustrate Plato's diamond —
See also "To Forge
a Head" (Oct. 27).
The passage from Lewis Carroll's Euclid and His Modern Rivals
in the previous post suggests two illustrations —
Click the Trudeau book for related Log24 posts.
Logo from the above webpage —
See also the similar structure of the eightfold cube, and …
Related dialogue from the new film "Unlocked" —
1057
01:31:59,926 –> 01:32:01,301
Nice to have you back, Alice.
1058
01:32:04,009 –> 01:32:05,467
Don't be a stranger.
Related material —
Faust Vivifies Death with Wit and Humor
by April H. N. Yee, Harvard Crimson , Feb. 7, 2008.
See as well all posts now tagged Willow and Mandorla.
A sequel to the post CP is for Consolation Prize (Sept. 3, 2016)
An image from Log24 on this date last year:
A recent comment on a discussion of CP symmetry —
(Continued from 10 AM)
"Think of a DO NOT ENTER pictogram,
a circle with a diagonal slash, a type of ideogram.
It tells you what to do or not do, but not why.
The why is part of a larger context, a bigger picture."
— Customer review at Amazon.com
The title is from the previous post —
"It’s an aesthetic that presents,
so to speak, just the facts,
as if the facts themselves weren’t
deeply layered with living history
and crisscrossed with vectors
of divergent ideas and ideals."
— Richard Brody, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017
From Brody's New Yorker contributor page —
"Reading List: Richard Brody recommends
Louis Menand’s “Browbeaten,” about Dwight Macdonald."
The New Yorker on the recent film "The Square" —
"It’s an aesthetic that presents,
so to speak, just the facts,
as if the facts themselves weren’t
deeply layered with living history
and crisscrossed with vectors
of divergent ideas and ideals."
— Richard Brody, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017
For other images deeply layered and crisscrossed ,
see Geometry of the I Ching.
The title was suggested by a 2014 Vanity Fair piece
by James Toback (Harvard '66).
"He squinted at this vision of a Qualityless world for a while,
conjured up more details, thought about it, and then squinted
some more and thought some more and then finally circled
back to where he was before.
Squareness.
That's the look. That sums it. Squareness. When you subtract
quality you get squareness. Absence of Quality is the essence
of squareness."
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
And when you add quality?
A related Zen joke from Final Club (June 19, 2017) —
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"Harvard Man" director James Toback (Harvard '66) in 2014 —
See also, in this journal, Preparation (April 1, 2013) —
This post was suggested by a New York Times obituary this evening —
"Tom Mathews, Promoter of Liberal Causes and Candidates, Dies at 96."
Mathews reportedly died on October 14, 2017.
"Mr. Mathews and his business partner Roger Craver 'dreamed for years
of finding the perfect citizen-candidate,' the authors wrote, 'a man or
woman of the center-left with a feel for issues, a history of independence,
a winning television manner and, most important of all, a center — a core
of beliefs more important to him or her than getting elected.'
Dream on.
From the date of Mathews's death:
Posts now tagged A Center for Krauss —
The New York Times at 8:22 PM ET —
"Knight Landesman, a longtime publisher of Artforum magazine
and a power broker in the art world, resigned on Wednesday
afternoon, hours after a lawsuit was filed in New York accusing
him of sexually harassing at least nine women in episodes that
stretched back almost a decade."
See as well, in this journal, Way to the Egress.
From Stanford — The death on October 9, 2017, of a man who
“always wanted to be at the most cutting of cutting-edge technology.”
Related material from Log24 on April 26, 2017 —
A sketch, adapted from Girl Scouts of Palo Alto —
Click the sketch for further details.
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Wikipedia: Taiji (philosophy) Etymology The word 太極 comes from I Ching : "易有太極，是生兩儀，兩儀生四象，四象生八卦，八卦定吉凶，吉凶生大業。" Taiji (太極) is a compound of tai 太 "great; grand; supreme; extreme; very; too" (a superlative variant of da 大 "big; large; great; very") and ji 極 "pole; roof ridge; highest/utmost point; extreme; earth's pole; reach the end; attain; exhaust". In analogy with the figurative meanings of English pole, Chinese ji 極 "ridgepole" can mean "geographical pole; direction" (e.g., siji 四極 "four corners of the earth; world's end"), "magnetic pole" (Beiji 北極 "North Pole" or yinji 陰極 "negative pole; cathode"), or "celestial pole" (baji 八極 "farthest points of the universe; remotest place"). Combining the two words, 太極 means "the source, the beginning of the world". Common English translations of the cosmological Taiji are the "Supreme Ultimate" (Le Blanc 1985, Zhang and Ryden 2002) or "Great Ultimate" (Chen 1989, Robinet 2008); but other versions are the "Supreme Pole" (Needham and Ronan 1978), "Great Absolute", or "Supreme Polarity" (Adler 1999). |
The most recent post in the "Visual Insight" blog of the
American Mathematical Society was by John Baez on Jan. 1, 2017 —
A visually related concept — See Solomon's Cube in this journal.
Chronologically related — Posts now tagged New Year's Day 2017.
Solomon's cube is the 4x4x4 case of the diamond theorem —
Click for some background —
Another approach, for Dan Brown fans —
In the following passage, Brown claims that an eight-ray star
with arrowheads at the rays' ends is "the mathematical symbol for
entropy." Brown may have first encountered this symbol at a
questionable "Sacred Science" website. Wikipedia discusses
some even less respectable uses of the symbol.
See "Imagination and Layered Ontology in Greek Mathematics,"
by Reviel Netz, at
See also …
Some background — Posts now tagged Noesis.
"Category theory has become the central gateway
through which to learn pure mathematics."
— David Spivak, Harvard Math Table, Oct. 24, 2017
— The New Yorker , issue of October 23, 2017
See as well posts tagged Death Warmed Over.
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