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From Wikipedia: Wilf might prefer to be remembered not, as in Thursday’s post, on the latter day above, but rather on the former. Happy birthday, Stellan Skarsgård. Skarsgård in Exorcist:…
Wikipedia article on mathematician Herbert Wilf: “One of Wilf’s former students is Richard Garfield, the creator of the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering .” For more about Garfield, see yesterday’s post…
“What was this Frankenstein he was creating?” — David Kushner, Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids Happy birthday, Gene Wilder.
“Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with A War of Gifts …. The War over Santa Claus will force everyone to make a choice.” —…
Also from 2010, in this journal: The Worst Christmas Pageant Ever.
“The relevance of a geometric theorem is determined by what the theorem tells us about space, and not by the eventual difficulty of the proof.” — Gian-Carlo Rota discussing the…
Thanks to the Museum of Modern Art for pointing out a new emphasis on design in U.S. Army Field Manual 5-0. MoMA supplies a link to an article from May…
The previous post told how user58512 at math.stackexchange.com sought in 2013 a geometric representation of Q8 , the quaternion group. He ended up displaying an illustration that very possibly was drawn,…
The title refers to a Scientific American weblog item discussed here on May 31, 2014: Some closely related material appeared here on Dec. 30, 2011: A version of the…