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Game Theory

From MAA columnist Keith Devlin yesterday : "All very depressing. I fear that this state of affairs will continue all the time US education continues to be treated as a…

For Soccer Moms

“Is it safe?"       — Annals of Art Education :             Geometry and Death

Damsel

See as well a note on "Joyce's Use of Kubla Khan" and remarks from Jesus College, Oxford , on  "Seeking the Sirens' Song."

Point of View

Nightmare

Continued from August 5, 2002… See also Venn's Trinity ("diamonds and rust") and a Monday death.

Miniature Lowry

A review describes the main character in the 1981 novel The Knife in My Hands — "His other peculiar characteristic is a fascination, developed during his university years, with the Cabala…

Excited about Space

Background — A search for the title in this journal. Grothendieck was at times excited about space: "The notion of space  is certainly one of the oldest in mathematics. It is fundamental…

Precision

An image from yesterday afternoon's post Portal: Related material: A review of the novel The Knife in My Hands  shown in the photo above.   Blurbs for a novel…

Foundations

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Portal

Two images from September 2014 — This journal: Google Street Views: