Two-Face

The Roman god Janus, from Wikipedia

[Note: Janus is Roman, not Greek, and
the photo is from one “Fubar Obfusco”]
 
The Roman god Janus, from Barry Mazur at Harvard
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From January 8:

Religion and Narrative, continued:

A Public Square

In memory of
Richard John Neuhaus,
who died today at 72:

“It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern,
   and ceases to be a mere sequence….”

— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

A Walsh function and a corresponding finite-geometry hyperplane

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See also The Folding.

Posted 1/8/2009 7:00 PM

Context:

Notes on Mathematics and Narrative

(entries in chronological order,
March 13 through 19)