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Harrowing of Hell (continued)

Holy Saturday is, according to tradition, the day of  the harrowing of Hell. Notes: The above passage on "Die Figuren der vier Modi im Magischen Quadrat " should be…

NPR Requiem

Multifaceted Music Critic Andrew Porter Dies At 86 APRIL 03, 2015 4:38 PM ET From the article: Over the Rainbow

For Smiley's People

Suggested by the excellent 2010 film "The Ghost Writer"— See also Lebrecht in this journal, Ralph Willett, and Ave Verum Corpus.

Deposition

For the title, see Wikipedia. A related quote: Philip Kennicott in The Washington Post, July 3, 2009— "The Vogels help allay deep cultural fears within the art world—…

Math Humor for Holy Week

See also the home page of Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz: Strogatz is the author of "Why Pi Matters." Backstory —

A Word for Holy Week

Heralded!

A Word…

… in memory of Tom Koch, comedy writer for Bob and Ray, who reportedly died at 89 on March 22 — Nuanced Part I: "Nuanced" in the recent post…

Würfel-Märchen

Continued from yesterday, the date of death for German billionaire philanthropist Klaus Tschira — For Tschira in this journal, see Stiftung . For some Würfel  illustrations, see this morning's post Manifest O.  A…

Math's Big Lies

Two mathematicians, Barry Mazur and Edward Frenkel, have, for rhetorical effect, badly misrepresented the history of some basic fields of mathematics. Mazur and Frenkel like to emphasize the…

Manifest O

The title was suggested by http://benmarcus.com/smallwork/manifesto/. The "O" of the title stands for the octahedral  group. See the following, from http://finitegeometry.org/sc/map.html — 83-06-21 An invariance of symmetry The diamond theorem on a…