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Sunday, September 30, 2018
Iconology of the Eightfold Cube
Found today in an Internet image search, from the website of
an anonymous amateur mathematics enthusiast —
Forming Gray codes in the eightfold cube with the eight
I Ching trigrams (bagua ) —
This journal on Nov. 7, 2016 —
A different sort of cube, from the makers of the recent
Netflix miniseries "Maniac" —
See also Rubik in this journal.
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Saturday, September 29, 2018
“Ikonologie des Zwischenraums”
The title is from Warburg. The Zwischenraum lines and shaded "cuts"
below are to be added together in characteristic two, i.e., via the
set-theoretic symmetric difference operator.
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Friday, September 28, 2018
ART WARS Midrash
"When times are mysterious
Serious numbers
Will always be heard."
— Paul Simon,
"When Numbers Get Serious"
"There is a pleasantly discursive treatment of
Pontius Pilate's unanswered question 'What is truth?'"
— H. S. M. Coxeter, introduction to Richard J. Trudeau's remarks
on the "story theory" of truth as opposed to the "diamond theory"
of truth in The Non-Euclidean Revolution (1987)
The deaths of Roth and Grünbaum on September 14th,
The Feast of the Holy Cross, along with Douthat's column
today titled "Only the Truth Can Save Us Now," suggest a
review of …
.
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Thursday, September 27, 2018
Branko Grünbaum, 1929-2018
See an American Mathematical Society obituary
and a Seattle Times obituary.
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Cube Meditation
See also "Eternal Recreation" (Christmas Eve, 2012).
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Analogies Between Analogies
On the new Netflix series "Maniac" —
"The treatment Owen and Annie sign up for promises to fix
its subjects’ brains with just three little pills—A, B, and C—
administered one after another over the span of three days.
The first forces you to relive your trauma;
the second exposes your blind spots; and
the third pill forces a confrontation."
— Kara Weisenstein at vice.com, Sept. 26, 2018, 12:19 PM
See also, from Log24 earlier …
A. Monday — Mathematics as Art
B. Tuesday — Trinity and Denkraum Revisited
C. Wednesday — Trinity Tale
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Trinity Tale
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Denkraum Revisited
See also this journal on Sept. 14
and related posts tagged Interstice.
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Trinity
See some posts related to three names
associated with Trinity College, Cambridge —
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Monday, September 24, 2018
Mathematics as Art
[Revised throughout the day on Sept. 24, 2018.]
"Mathematics may be art, but to the general public it is
a black art, more akin to magic and mystery. This presents
a constant challenge to the mathematical community: to explain
how art fits into our subject and what we mean by beauty."
— Sir Michael Atiyah, quoted here on April 4, 2016
Atiyah's remarks today on the Riemann hypothesis, based on his earlier
remarks on "arithmetic physics" and α, the fine-structure constant,
seem to exemplify the "magic and mystery" approach.
From some previous Log24 posts —
Update of 6:06 PM ET the same day —
https://twitter.com/mpoessel/status/1044131977950109696 —
For related magic and mystery, see Log24 posts tagged on090405.
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Sunday, September 23, 2018
Three Times Eight
The New York Times 's Sunday School today —
I prefer the three bricks of the Miracle Octad Generator —
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Saturday, September 22, 2018
Minimalist Configuration
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The Venturi Manifesto
Venturi reportedly died on Tuesday, September 18.*
See also this journal on that date.
* Fact check:
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Symmetric Generation, by Curtis
Norwegian artist Josefine Lyche —
Lyche's shirt honors the late Kurt Cobain.
"Here we are now, entertain us."
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Symmetric Generation, by Netflix
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Friday, September 21, 2018
Symmetric Generation, by Nao
"The creation of a new world
starts now.
Once again I am tied
to the logic of this
Hyper-symmetrical-dimension."
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Thursday, September 20, 2018
1971 Mystery Box
Vincent Canby in The New York Times ,
January 28, 1971, reviews the film "The Statue" —
There is not much point in going into the dialogue,
but you'll get the idea from the line spoken by
a little girl who is shown gazing in wonderment
at the copy of Michelangelo's work in the
Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
"Golly," she says, "if that's David, I'd like to see Goliath!"
"The Statue" may have the distinction of being the first
adolescent comedy about penis envy.
In keeping with filmmaker J.J. Abrams's philosophy of the "mystery box" —
Canby's phrase "you'll get the idea" suggests a Log24 review . . .
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Wednesday, September 19, 2018
In Memoriam:
Denis Mostyn Norden, writer, broadcaster and television presenter,
born 6 February 1922; died 19 September 2018.
For Abraham Warburg —
"Que cantaba el Rey David."
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Monday, September 17, 2018
Lying at the Axis
Or: Zero Dark Zero
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" Lying at the axis of everything, zero is both real and imaginary. Lovelace was fascinated by zero; as was Gottfried Leibniz, for whom, like mathematics itself, it had a spiritual dimension. It was this that let him to imagine the binary numbers that now lie at the heart of computers: 'the creation of all things out of nothing through God's omnipotence, it might be said that nothing is a better analogy to, or even demonstration of such creation than the origin of numbers as here represented, using only unity and zero or nothing.' He also wrote, 'The imaginary number is a fine and wonderful recourse of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian between being and nonbeing.' "
— A footnote from page 229 of Sydney Padua's |
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Sunday, September 16, 2018
Data
<h1 id="top"> Bacow Heads to Home State of Michigan In Quest to Fix Harvard’s Image Problem </h1> <div class="article-byline" style="display: none;"> By <a href='/writer/1213317/Kristine_E._Guillaume/'> Kristine E. Guillaume</a> and <a href='/writer/1213264/Jamie_D._Halper/'> Jamie D. Halper</a>, Crimson Staff Writers <time class="article-date" datetime="2018-09-16T23:04:29-04:00" title="Updated September 16, 2018 at 11:04p.m."> September 16, 2018 </time> </div>
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Husserl for Beginners
See also Trivial + Affine and Eidetic Reduction.
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