Tag: April First 2015

Würfel-Märchen

Continued from yesterday, the date of death for German billionaire philanthropist Klaus Tschira — For Tschira in this journal, see Stiftung . For some Würfel  illustrations, see this morning's post Manifest O.  A…

Math's Big Lies

Two mathematicians, Barry Mazur and Edward Frenkel, have, for rhetorical effect, badly misrepresented the history of some basic fields of mathematics. Mazur and Frenkel like to emphasize the…

Manifest O

The title was suggested by http://benmarcus.com/smallwork/manifesto/. The "O" of the title stands for the octahedral  group. See the following, from http://finitegeometry.org/sc/map.html — 83-06-21 An invariance of symmetry The diamond theorem on a…