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Her

“The name Siri is Norwegian, meaning ‘beautiful woman who leads you to victory.’” I prefer Josefine.

Old Jew

See also Blockheads (esp. today’s 2 PM post) and “That old Jew gave me this here.”

Blockheads continues

For Little Man Tate — Related material — Wechsler in this journal.

Red to Green continues

The New Yorker  of March 17 on a New York literary family— “First they were Communists, then liberals (he was questioned by the House Committee on Un-American Activities);…

Red to Green

Part I:  The New Yorker Passages from The New Yorker  issue dated March 17, 2014— "Both autism and psychopathy entail a lack of empathy. Psychologists, though, distinguish between…

Language Game

Cullinane = Cullinan + e Greene = Green + e

Greene on Mathematics

A reply in the March 8 LA Times  to the opinion piece by Edward Frenkel discussed here yesterday— "It is completely wrong to imply that Euclidean geometry is somehow…

Obiter Dicta

"I am haunted by humans." (Search for the source at Google.) "Art worldlings are one thing, Hollywood another." (Search for the source at Log24.) These quotations were suggested…

Whitewashing Picasso

A search today for Edward Frenkel's phrase "portals into the magic world of modern math" leads to a reprint of his March 2 LA Times  opinion piece in…

The Search for Charles Wallace

The search in the previous post for the source of a quotation from Poincaré yielded, as a serendipitous benefit, information on an interesting psychoanalyst named Wilfred Bion (see the…