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For the Princeton Class of 1905 — Joyce Carol Oates Meets Emily Dickinson. Oates — "It is an afternoon in autumn, near dusk. The western sky is a spider’s web of translucent…
“Charting the Real Four-Qubit Pauli Group via Ovoids of a Hyperbolic Quadric of PG(7,2),” by Metod Saniga, Péter Lévay and Petr Pracna, arXiv:1202.2973v2 [math-ph] 26 Jun 2012 — P….
A field in China — The following link was suggested by today’s previous post and by the ABC TV series “Resurrection” scheduled to start at 9 PM ET Sunday, March 9, 2014 —…
The Dream of the Expanded Field continues… From Klein's 1893 Lectures on Mathematics — "The varieties introduced by Wirtinger may be called Kummer varieties…." — E. Spanier, 1956 From…
See “But is it Art?,” linked to here and here —
See posts tagged The Well. Related material: Artist Joseph Kosuth, who pictured the dictionary definition of “nothing” shown in the index of today’s LA Times obituaries, and a Chinese film director,…
See also Rosenhain and Göpel in the Wikipedia article Kummer surface, and in this journal. Related material: user @hyperelliptic on Twitter.
In Beijing, it is now 3 AM on March 6, the dies natalis of St. Pearl Buck. (Click to enlarge.)
Review of Joseph Campbell's The Inner Reaches of Outer Space— The reviewer compares Campbell to "one of those guys who builds his own church out of hub caps." A simple…
(Continued) “Alles wird viel einfacher, wenn man zuerst von der Unendlichkeit der Theilbarkeit abstrahirt und bloss Discrete Grössen betrachtet.” — Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1825 (Quoted here in the…