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A Tune for Josefine*

From the New York Times  obituary of philanthropist Fred Kavli, who died on Thursday, November 21— ” In 2005, when Mr. Kavli announced that he planned to start the…

Windows

Ben Brantley reviewing a show by the X-Men patriarchs that opened on Sunday: "This isn’t just a matter of theatergoers chuckling to show that they’re smart and cultured and…

Pythagoras Wannabe*

A scholium on the link to Pythagoras in this morning's previous post Figurate Numbers: For related number mysticism, see Chapter 8, "Magic Numbers," in Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden…

Figurate Numbers

The title refers to a post from July 2012: The above post, a new description of a class of figurate numbers that has been studied at least since…

Galois Groups and Harmonic Analysis

"In 1967, he [Langlands] came up with revolutionary insights tying together the theory of Galois groups  and another area of mathematics called harmonic analysis. These two areas, which seem light years…

Logic for Jews*

The search for 1984 at the end of last evening's post suggests the following Sunday meditation. My own contribution to this genre— A triangle-decomposition result from 1984: American…

Light Years Apart?

From a recent attempt to vulgarize the Langlands program: "Galois’ work is a great example of the power of a mathematical insight….  And then, 150 years later, Langlands…

Deo Gratias

See also R. L. Burnside in this journal (Sept. 2, 2005).

Rabbi

"We'll give the week-end to wisdom, to Weisheit, the rabbi…." — Wallace Stevens in "Things of August" (see Storyville yesterday) My choice for a rabbi would be George Steiner. INTERVIEWER…

Frame Tale (continued)

See The X-Men Tree,  another tree,  and Trinity MOG.