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Math Humor for Holy Week

See also the home page of Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz: Strogatz is the author of "Why Pi Matters." Backstory —

A Word for Holy Week

Heralded!

A Word…

… in memory of Tom Koch, comedy writer for Bob and Ray, who reportedly died at 89 on March 22 — Nuanced Part I: "Nuanced" in the recent post…

Würfel-Märchen

Continued from yesterday, the date of death for German billionaire philanthropist Klaus Tschira — For Tschira in this journal, see Stiftung . For some Würfel  illustrations, see this morning's post Manifest O.  A…

Math's Big Lies

Two mathematicians, Barry Mazur and Edward Frenkel, have, for rhetorical effect, badly misrepresented the history of some basic fields of mathematics. Mazur and Frenkel like to emphasize the…

Manifest O

The title was suggested by http://benmarcus.com/smallwork/manifesto/. The "O" of the title stands for the octahedral  group. See the following, from http://finitegeometry.org/sc/map.html — 83-06-21 An invariance of symmetry The diamond theorem on a…

Flame Diary

Last Saturday's post Against Dryness quoted "Gone Girl," a recent film about an untypical couple.  Other works of interest: The Flame Alphabet  (Ben Marcus, 2012) and The Folded Clock  (Heidi Julavits,…

Würfel-Märchen

See also Würfel in this journal.

Mathematics for Jews*

Headline at the Toronto Star  on Friday, March 27, 2015: Robert Langlands: The Canadian who reinvented mathematics “He’s like a modern-day Einstein.” Apparently, unlike God, Langlands würfelt . * See…

Death in East Hampton

See also Deathtrap in this journal.