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Star Quality

Seize the Dia

(Continued from April 6, 2013)

A Death of Kings

The title is that of  a classic 1968 New Yorker  essay by George Steiner. See previous posts on this topic.

A Single Finite Structure

"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…

Expanding the Spielfeld*

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…

Best Picture

Related material: The Best Picture and posts of Columbus Day, 2014.

It's 10 PM

Do you know where your watch is? From a post of May 13, 2015 — From the recent film "Interstellar" —

Scoring Plan 9

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."…

Easter Monday 2012

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:

Logos

The Santa Fe Institute logo, together with the previous post, suggests a review of Whirligig and Quaternion for Goldstein.