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Turing's Church

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…

Colorful Tale

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…

Platonic Analogy

(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…

Five by Five

You are here > Home > Mystery > Contact (1997) > Five by Five "This is Control. Do you copy?" "Reading you five by five…"

Rocket Science (at) 101:

  The Ascension of Dieter Grau

Launched from Cuber

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…

For Rilke's Panther

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…

Say Hello to My Little Friend

For some backstory, see Feast of the Holy Innocents, 2012.

Antidotes…

… 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…

Mythic Metaphysics

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 —    …