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C. P. Snow on G. H. Hardy in the foreword to A Mathematician's Apology : "… he had another favourite entertainment. 'Mark that man we met last night,' he…
(Continued… See "I need a photo opportunity…") From the previous post's Yankee Puzzle link : Saturday, January 7, 2012 Doodles Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Yankee Puzzle — m759 @ 7:14 PM Today's Google…
On the feast of Saint Nicholas See also the six posts on this year's feast of Saint Andrew and the following from the University of St. Andrews —
From Zettel (repunctuated for clarity): 249. « Nichts leichter, als sich einen 4-dimensionalen Würfel vorstellen! Er schaut so aus… » "Nothing easier than to imagine a 4-dimensional cube! It looks like…
Oslo artist Josefine Lyche has a new Instagram post, this time on pyramids (the monumental kind). My response — Wikipedia's definition of a tetrahedron as a "triangle-based pyramid" ……
Continued from November 30, 2014 "Number right → Everything right." — Burkard Polster. See also the six posts of November 30, St. Andrew's Day. Related material — Peter J. Cameron today discussing…
Flashback to St. Andrew's Day, 2013 — Saturday, November 30, 2013 Waiting for Ogdoad Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Change Arises — m759 @ 10:30 AM Continued from October 30 (Devil's Night), 2013….
Or: Concepts of Space 1976 according to Cullinane: 1976 according to Plotnick: “Irony and ridicule are entertaining and effective, and . . . at the same time they are…
Reality's Mirror: Exploring the Mathematics of Symmetry — "Here is a book that explains in laymen language what symmetry is all about, from the lowliest snowflake and flounder to…
From "A Piece of the Storm," by the late poet Mark Strand — A snowflake, a blizzard of one…. From notes to Malcolm Lowry's "La Mordida" — he had invested,…