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Quad*

* Update of 8 PM Nov. 19:    The title refers to a work by Beckett.   "There is nothing outside itself that Quad    might be about." — Sue…

Star Quality

Continued from  July 13, 2008. Happy birthday,  Peta Wilson.

Teleportation Web?

"In this book, I will describe one of the biggest ideas to come out of mathematics in the last fifty years: the Langlands Program, considered by many as…

The Four-Gated Song

In the spirit of Beckett: "Bobbies on bicycles two by two…" — Roger Miller, 1965 The Literary Field A mathematics weblog in Australia today— Clearly, the full symmetric group…

The Date*

September 7th, 2009 In memory of William Weaver, translator of Foucault's Pendulum ,  and of Nobel winner Doris Lessing, author of The Four-Gated City , a song. (Note the…

The X-Men Tree

Continued from November 12, 2013. A post on that date showed the tree from Waiting for Godot  along with the two X-Men patriarchs. See also last night's Chapel post, which…

Chapel (continued)

In memory of the translator of Foucault's Pendulum , who reportedly died on Tuesday, November 12th— A detail from an image search (2 MB) linked to here  on that date: See also…

Example

"…the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of seemingly great generality…

Mathematics and Rhetoric

Jim Holt in the current (Dec. 5) New York Review of Books— One form of Eros is the sexual desire aroused by the physical beauty of a particular beloved…

Raiders of the Lost Theorem

Yes. See … The 48 actions of GL(2,3) on a 3×3 coordinate-array A, when matrices of that group right-multiply the elements of A, with A = (1,1) (1,0) (1,2) (0,1) (0,0)…