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Stone Cold Open

X-Woman

For Kristen Wiig, a 10 if ever there was one. “To be is to be the value of a variable.” See also "Ten'll Getcha."

Ten'll Getcha

The Marlowe Deception*

From The New York Times  this morning: "David Henry Marlowe was born in Brooklyn on June 6, 1931, the youngest of three children of Karl and Lena Marlowe,…

Enter Tinker Bell

Kylie Minogue in “Moulin Rouge”

Plan 9 Continues

(An episode of Mathematics and Narrative .) Mathematician Peter J. Cameron this morning  on a Paris anthropological exhibition subtitled  Révélation d’un temps sans fin — "I was reminded of Herbert…

Fourth Right

In memory of Rod Taylor, who reportedly died at 84 on Wednesday, the seventh day of 2015 — And there is  such a thing as a 4-set.

Forthright

Ivor Grattan-Guinness, 1941-2014 The noted historian of mathematics reportedly died on December 12, 2014. "His forthright style of operating meant he could occasionally ruffle academic feathers." — An acquaintance quoted…

ABC Verlag, Zurich

"The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon, The A B C of being…." — Wallace Stevens See also Cube Trinity in this journal.

Gitterkrieg

(Continued) From the abstract of a talk, "Extremal Lattices," at TU Graz on Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, by Prof. Dr. Gabriele Nebe (RWTH Aachen) — "I will give a construction of…