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Winter's Game*

Part I:  Continued from January 20 — "Arising Heaven" — Part II:  The Stars My Destination  in this journal Part III:  Ender's Game  — * The title refers to a character, Rogue Winter, in…

But Seriously…

(A sequel to yesterday's Raiders of the Lost Music Box) See, in this book, "Walsh Functions: A Digital Fourier Series," by Benjamin Jacoby (BYTE , September 1977).  Some context: Symmetry…

A Force of Nature

In memoriam  — Selah.

Raiders of the Lost…

Music Box

Everybody Comes to Rick's

Continued from a post of January 28 — In Memory of Pete Seeger. The spiritual tribute link in that post suggests a review of the following page from a…

Mystery Box III: Inside, Outside

(Continued from Mystery Box, Feb. 4, and Mystery Box II, Feb. 5.) The Box Inside the Box Outside the Box For the connection of the inside  notation to the outside  geometry, see…

Sermon

A New York Times Sunday Magazine  article today about Reek Sunday (the last Sunday in July) suggests a review of that Sunday last year, and hence also of a related post…

Sunday School

The late mathematics educator Zoltan Dienes in 2002 published an article containing the following cryptic confession — "Nowhere will I give away how I stole these patterns from the mathematician's…

Green Night

See “Babbled” in this journal and … Update of 3:15 AM ET — Suggestions for Terry Gilliam, director of The Zero Theorem  and Brazil — See posts of April 26, 2013,…

The Village

From this journal on Jan. 26, 2009 — See also "Strip Mathematics," by Zoltan Dienes — This illustration may have first appeared in Dienes's "Mathematical fun without numbers, letters, formulae or…