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Mathematics and Narrative (continued)

Angels & Demons meet Hudson Hawk Dan Brown's four-elements diamond in Angels & Demons : The Leonardo Crystal from Hudson Hawk : Hudson: Mathematics may be used to relate (very…

Back to the Present: The Sequel

For Rosenhain and Göpel From Tom Stoppard's play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" GUIL: Yes, one must think of the future. ROS: It's the normal thing. GUIL: To…

Back to the Present

The previous post discussed some tesseract– related mathematics from 1905. Returning to the present, here is some arXiv activity in the same area from March 11, 12, and…

The Crosswicks Curse

Continues. From the prologue to the new Joyce Carol Oates novel Accursed— "This journey I undertake with such anticipation is not one of geographical space but one of…

Puzzles

For readers of The Daily Princetonian : (From a site advertised in the Princetonian  on March 11, 2013) For readers of The Harvard Crimson : For some background, see Crimson Easter…

Moran and Molloy

MORAN MOLLOY "I lived in the garden. I have spoken of a voice telling me things. I was getting to know it better now, to understand what it…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Continued from February 10 . A phrase from this morning's post: Abyssus Abyssum Invocat Illustration: See also The Red Pill (March 6) and Classroom from Hell (March 7).

Nutshell continued

For the new Jesuit pope (see previous post) Now among Log24 posts tagged "Khora" is one from July 15, 2010, dealing with a book called Deconstruction in a Nutshell:…

Verbum Sat

Khora.

Blackboard Jungle

From a review in the April 2013 issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society— "The author clearly is passionate about mathematics as an art, as a creative process. In…