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Shadow of a Lie

A recent addition to Barry Mazur's home page— "December 1, 2013: Here are rough notes for a short talk entitled The Faces of Evidence (in Mathematics) ([PDF]) to be…

Raiders of the Lost Script

Happy Feast of Saint Nicholas.

Blackboard Jungle

Continued from Field of Dreams, Jan. 20, 2013. That post mentioned the March 2011 AMS Notices , an issue on mathematics education. In that issue was an interview with Abel…

Fields

Edward Frenkel recently claimed for Robert Langlands the discovery of a link between two "totally different" fields of mathematics— number theory and harmonic analysis. He implied that before Langlands, no…

The Mirror's Faces*

See the previous post, the remarks of Roger Kimball on Frank Stella's lecture at Harvard on Oct. 12, 1983, and "Study of O" in this journal, with my own images of space…

Space According to Stella

Related remarks: yesterday's post at this hour.

Bear and Bull

Excerpt from a poem by Johanna Skibsrud (Toronto Quarterly , April 2, 2011)— No, I could not love a human being if they  could not leave a mark….

Diamond Space

A new website illustrates its URL. See DiamondSpace.net.

Finite-Geometry Notes

See my Google Sites page if you would like to download a zipped copy (31 MB) of my Finite-Geometry Notes  site (not zipped, at finitegeometry.org/sc/map.html). Or you can of course use…

Sermon

First edition, 1973, cover art by Gene Szafran "It's going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment of the Talented in the scheme of things." — To Ride Pegasus ,…