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Trudeau is a sophist. Wertheim, on the other hand…
"Classical Geometry in Light of Galois Geometry" is now available at independent.academia.edu. Related commentary: Yesterday's post Vision and a post of February 21, 2013: Galois Space.
"Then it came to him. In a single stroke he had what might be called a complete vision of the information age." — "Douglas C. Engelbart, Inventor of…
My diamond theorem articles at PlanetMath and at Encyclopedia of Mathematics have been updated to clarify the relationship between the graphic square patterns of the diamond theorem and the schematic…
Continued from Sunday's post Book Award and last midnight's post Holding the Frame— The nineteenth-century German writer Rudolf Haym on German romantic Hellenism— "In the enjoyment of this…
High praise for a 1941 film— Major Barbara (Gabriel Pascal, 1941) — "There are some performances that bypass your critical faculties altogether, connecting not with your brain but with your soul….
"What on earth is a 'concrete universal'?" — Said to be an annotation (undated) by Robert M. Pirsig of A History of Philosophy , by Frederick Copleston, Society of Jesus. In…
Continued from the previous post (June 27), about the death of the founder of the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at Oxford… From Oxford Today , June 26, 2013— (See…
The body of James Martin, 79, founder of the Oxford Martin School, was reportedly found floating in the sea near his private island off Bermuda on Monday, June 24, 2013. In his…
"These are death's own supremest images, The pure perfections of parental space" — Wallace Stevens, "The Owl in the Sarcophagus"