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Structure

On Devil’s Night Introducing a group of 322,560 affine transformations of Dürer’s ‘Magic’ Square The four vector-space substructures of digits in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th place, together with the diamond theorem, indicate…

Mimicry

This journal Tuesday,  Oct. 28, 2014, at 5 PM ET: “What is a tai chi master, and what is it that he unfolds?” From an earlier post, Hamlet’s…

Dead Poet

For poet Galway Kinnell, Princeton ’48: Kinnell was named “Tiger of the Week” in a Princeton Alumni Weekly  post of August 27, 2014. See his obituary in today’s…

Symbology for Harvard

See also “Satan’s School.”

Raiders of the Lost Symbol

A print copy of next Sunday’s New York Times Book Review arrived in today’s mail. From the front-page review: Marcel Theroux on The Book of Strange New Things ,…

Go Figure

For Karl Pribram and Katherine Neville, a sequel to this morning's Figural Processing — See also Christmas 2013.

Figural Processing

Part I: Part II: Click images for some context.

Revolutions in Geometry

A post in honor of Évariste Galois (25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832) From a book by Richard J. Trudeau titled The Non-Euclidean Revolution — See also “non-Euclidean”…

Centennial

The "Chern" of today's previous post is mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern (b. Oct. 26, 1911, d. Dec. 3, 2004). For an observance of the 2011 centennial of his birth,…

For Chern's Birthday

The Poem of Pure Reality