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For Katy Perry Halftime Show — The "Pyramid Dance" from this journal on Dec. 3, 2014, the date of death for mathematics author James Stewart — Backstory: When Stewart died on Dec. 3, it…
Von Weizsäcker reportedly died sometime last night. * A reference to this journal's final post from 2014.
For those who prefer Heidegger to Hausdorff:
From the concluding paragraph of a new book by mathematician Michael Harris: "A team of eminent scholars is completing a definitive edition of Hausdorff’s collected works—'unique … in…
The New York Times this morning, in an obituary for a maker of crossword puzzles : "… the first known crossword puzzle appeared in an American newspaper. (Called a…
In memory of a dead poet — "Relax," said the night man. "We are programmed to receive." * A phrase from a new book by mathematician Michael Harris, Mathematics…
The Yale Daily News on Sept. 9, 2014 — Related material on "the hard problem" of consciousness— Wikipedia on the problem, and Tom Stoppard's first new play in nine…
See also a tribute to Wang (a Yale math major).