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(Continued from Sept. 3, 2009) George Steiner on chess: "At the sight of a set, even the tawdriest of plastic pocket sets, one’s fingers arch and a coldness…
Or: Phantasmagoria Meets Pandemonium Part I: Phantasmagoria Rebecca Goldstein on first encountering Plato — “I was reading Durant’s section on Plato, struggling to understand his theory of the ideal…
(Continued from Beautiful Mathematics, Dec. 14, 2013) “Seemingly unrelated structures turn out to have mysterious correspondences.” — Jim Holt, opening paragraph of a book review in the Dec. 5, 2013, issue of The New…
The following post suggests the Spiders and Snakes of Fritz Leiber’s Changewar , a mythology inspired by the hallucinations of delirium tremens .
Loren Olson, Harvard ’64, a professor of mathematics at Norway’s Tromsø University,* died June 22, 2014. In his memory, a search in this journal for Lie Group. That search…
This morning’s previous post quoted a sort of invitation to damnation from Princeton University Press: An alternative to damnation:
Some related material in this journal: “Peter J. Cameron” + Magic.
"Welcome to America." — Harrison Ford in "The Devil's Own" America (current issue): On readings at Mass on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014 — "Isaiah 55:8-9: 'For my thoughts are not your…
Review of an image from a post of May 6, 2009:
“Why Is Our Sci-Fi So Glum About A.I.?,” by Jayson Greene, NY Times Sunday Magazine today — “You come to pity these advanced beings, bumping against the dunderheaded constraints…