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Stark and Bleak

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…

Photo Opportunity

(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…

Six-Point Theology

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 —

Wittgenstein's Picture

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…

Pyramid Dance

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" ……

Models

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…

Change Arises

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….

Agents of a Great Despair

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…

View from the Bottom

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…

Investments

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,…