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Red to Green

Part I:  The New Yorker Passages from The New Yorker  issue dated March 17, 2014— "Both autism and psychopathy entail a lack of empathy. Psychologists, though, distinguish between…

Language Game

Cullinane = Cullinan + e Greene = Green + e

Greene on Mathematics

A reply in the March 8 LA Times  to the opinion piece by Edward Frenkel discussed here yesterday— "It is completely wrong to imply that Euclidean geometry is somehow…

Obiter Dicta

"I am haunted by humans." (Search for the source at Google.) "Art worldlings are one thing, Hollywood another." (Search for the source at Log24.) These quotations were suggested…

Whitewashing Picasso

A search today for Edward Frenkel's phrase "portals into the magic world of modern math" leads to a reprint of his March 2 LA Times  opinion piece in…

The Search for Charles Wallace

The search in the previous post for the source of a quotation from Poincaré yielded, as a serendipitous benefit, information on an interesting psychoanalyst named Wilfred Bion (see the…

Quotation

Edward Frenkel in a vulgar and stupid LA Times  opinion piece, March 2, 2014 — "In the words of the great mathematician Henri Poincare, mathematics is valuable because 'in…

Entartete Kunst

The title refers to a New York Times  story about an art exhibition that opened today. This evening’s NY Lottery numbers:  016 and 2858. Pictures from these links: 016…

Story

A Presbyterian meditation — A scene from the film of the above book — “Looking carefully at Golay’s code is like staring into the sun.” — Richard Evan Schwartz…

Completing the Supersquare

Presbyterian elder Reubin Askew was called “Jesus Christ Supersquare” after completing his first year as governor of Florida— Now Askew has completed his life. See also other instances…