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Temporal note: The time of this post, 8:09 AM ET, may be regarded as a reference to the date 8/09 in the year of our Lord 2010. See…
"Not only was he world class, highly regarded and effective, but he also offered a story, a lesson, or a playful insight that was there if you were…
For the Feast of Epiphany: A trip back to December 1955— Meditations for Three Kings Day (Feast of Epiphany)— "Show me all the blueprints." — Leonardo DiCaprio as…
The finite (i.e., Galois) field GF(16), according to J. J. Seidel in 1974— The same field according to Steven H. Cullinane in 1986, in its guise as the…
"When you study the basics very thoroughly, you never know where it may end." — Ulrich Schneider, U. of Munich physicist, in a science story by Charles…
From an obituary of singer Patti Page, who died on New Year's Day— "Clara Ann Fowler was born Nov. 8, 1927, in Claremore, Okla., and grew up in…
Update of May 27, 2013: The post below is now outdated. See http://planetmath.org/cullinanediamondtheorem . __________________________________________________________________ The brief note on the diamond theorem at PlanetMath disappeared some time ago. Here…
Thanks to a Harvard math major for the following V. I. Arnold quote in a weblog post yesterday titled "Abstraction and Generality"— "… the author has attempted to adhere…
Midnight in Paris See also Mariani in this journal.
"What possessed a generation of young European artists, and a few Americans, to suddenly suppress recognizable imagery in pictures and sculptures? Unthinkable at one moment, the strategy became…