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(Continued from April 6, 2013)
The title is that of a classic 1968 New Yorker essay by George Steiner. See previous posts on this topic.
"It is as if one were to condense all trends of present day mathematics onto a single finite structure…." — Gian-Carlo Rota, foreword to A Source Book in…
For TD Arena … See also Lincoln Alexander and posts in this journal just before and on the date of Alexander's death — Oct. 19, 2012. * For the…
Related material: The Best Picture and posts of Columbus Day, 2014.
Do you know where your watch is? From a post of May 13, 2015 — From the recent film "Interstellar" —
In keeping with the resurrection themes of the previous post and of "Plan 9 from Outer Space," here is a link to the soundtrack of "Field of Dreams."…
Rebecca Goldstein, the author mentioned in the previous two posts, spoke at Santa Fe Institute on Easter Monday, April 9, 2012. This journal on that date:
The Santa Fe Institute logo, together with the previous post, suggests a review of Whirligig and Quaternion for Goldstein.