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This post was suggested by the book Turing's Cathedral and by comments 29 and 31 on Scott Aaronson's Dec. 16 post about "The Imitation Game." See Church-Turing thesis at Wikipedia and…
Wikipedia on a tale about one Hippasus of Metapontum, who supposedly was drowned by Pythagoreans for his discovery of irrational numbers and/or of the dodecahedron — "In the hands…
(Five by Five continued) As the 3×3 grid underlies the order-3 finite projective plane, whose 13 points may be modeled by the 13 symmetry axes of the cube, so the 5×5…
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The Ascension of Dieter Grau
Continued from Nobel Note (Jan. 29, 2014). From Tradition in Action , "The Missal Crisis of '62," remarks on the revision of the Catholic missal in that year— "Neither can…
The title refers to yesterday evening's remarks titled "Free the Philosophical Beast" in The Stone , a NY Times weblog. The January 2015 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical…
For some backstory, see Feast of the Holy Innocents, 2012.
… to last night's TV premiere of the Syfy miniseries "Ascension," also known as "Mad Men in Space" — See also Sunday's observances here and at St. Rose of Lima…
Today's 8:01 PM post quoted Husserl on the perception of the cube. Another approach to perception of the cube, from Narrative Metaphysics on St. Lucia's Day — …