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Sunday School

Galois and Abel vs. Rubik (Continued) “Abel was done to death by poverty, Galois by stupidity. In all the history of science there is no completer example of the triumph…

Toying

Related material: Quilt Geometry and Magical Realism Revisited.

Quilt Geometry

or: The Dead Hand Shot See also Tumbling Blocks Quilt and Springtime for Vishnu.

Creativity

Quoted here on April 11 — “…direct access to the godhead, which in this case was Creativity.” — Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House From “Today in History: April…

The Inscape of 24

“The more intellectual, less physical, the spell of contemplation the more complex must be the object, the more close and elaborate must be the comparison the mind has…

Thursday with the Nashes

“For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.” — Gravity’s Rainbow “I don’t write exclusively on Jewish themes or about Jewish characters. My collection of short stories, Strange…

Miami Mosaic

He “…believed the art to be real….” — Lawyer for  Mosaic Miami Church pastor accused of trying to sell forged Damien Hirst art A Miami mosaic from this…

Eight Gate

From a Huffington Post  discussion of aesthetics: “The image below on the left… is… overly simplistic, and lacks reality: It’s all a matter of perspective: the problem here…

Kindergarten Geometry

(Continued) A screenshot of the new page on the eightfold cube at Froebel Decade: Click screenshot to enlarge.

For April 1

Or:  Extremely Gray Code Related material:  Spaces as Hypercubes