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Class Act

Update of Nov. 30, 2014 — For further information on the geometry in the remarks by Eberhart below, see pp. 16-17 of A Geometrical Picture Book , by Burkard Polster (Springer,…

Euclidean-Galois Interplay

For previous remarks on this topic, as it relates to symmetry axes of the cube, see previous posts tagged Interplay. The above posts discuss, among other things, the Galois projective…

"What Reality?"

"We tried to create new realities overnight, careful sets of words that resemble advertising slogans in memorability and repeatability." … Our Most Important Product …   "Omega is…

Homemade Aesthetics

Continued from Tuesday, November 18, 2014 International poster for the 2010 film "Black Swan"— "Death is a black swan." — Graciela Chichilnisky

Metaphysician in the Dark

Continued from Friday, November 21:

Remarks on Reality

Wallace Stevens in "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" (1950) on "The Ruler of Reality" — "Again, 'He has thought it out, he thinks it out, As he has been…

Style

Corrections to the NY Times  obituary of Alexander Grothendieck are shown below. For the original Sunday, Nov. 16, NY Times   print obituary (with its online date, Nov. 14), see a copy taken from a weblog….

About Nothing

See the easy grace link in this morning's previous post. See also Michael Dubruiel and Log24 posts of Feb. 3 and Feb. 9, 2009.

The November 22 Candidate

Welcome to the Garden Club, Pilgrim "A journalist with a literary bent, Mr. Eder wrote with an easy grace and a practiced eye for detail. In 1974, he assessed…

More

"When Three Into One Equals More" — New York Times  headline  See also Trinity in this journal.  From that search:                  …