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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."
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,…
Kylie Minogue in “Moulin Rouge”
(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…
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.
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…
"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.
(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…