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From a mathematical review: "The book ends with eye-opening explorations…. If pressed for an extra rubric, I would consider a separate section on "Engaging Games," as this is…
(Continued) A review of Beautiful Mathematics for 8 PM. The corrected index the reviewer links to is here. As a June 1 post shows, it is not corrected enough ….
Wikipedia: The Chinese name of the gate, Tiānānmén 天安門 … is made up of the Chinese characters for "heaven," "peace" and "gate" respectively, which is why the name…
The Daily Princetonian today: A different cover act, discussed here Saturday: See also, in this journal, the Galois tesseract and the Crosswicks Curse. "There is such a thing as…
New Yorker editor David Remnick at Princeton today (from a copy of his prepared remarks): "Finally, speaking of fabric design…." I prefer Tom and Harold: Tom Wolfe in…
Triple Threat "'Mr. Remnick's work is smart, funny and insightful — a triple threat Class Day speaker!' said Class Day co-chair Lily Alberts." — News at Princeton Related material: David…
From "The Genre Artist," by Carlo Rotella, in The New York Times , published online on July 15, 2009 — "Dan Simmons, the best-selling writer of horror and fantasy,…
See the Klein correspondence at SymOmega today and in this journal. "The casual passerby may wonder about the name SymOmega. This comes from the notation Sym(Ω) referring to…
"Je repârs à zéro." — Awakening theme from Inception This morning's New York Times :
"What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence." — G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology The diamond theorem group, published without…