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Raiders of the Lost Symbol

A print copy of next Sunday’s New York Times Book Review arrived in today’s mail. From the front-page review: Marcel Theroux on The Book of Strange New Things ,…

Go Figure

For Karl Pribram and Katherine Neville, a sequel to this morning's Figural Processing — See also Christmas 2013.

Figural Processing

Part I: Part II: Click images for some context.

Revolutions in Geometry

A post in honor of Évariste Galois (25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832) From a book by Richard J. Trudeau titled The Non-Euclidean Revolution — See also “non-Euclidean”…

Centennial

The "Chern" of today's previous post is mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern (b. Oct. 26, 1911, d. Dec. 3, 2004). For an observance of the 2011 centennial of his birth,…

For Chern's Birthday

The Poem of Pure Reality

Foundation Square

In the above illustration of the 3-4-5 Pythagorean triangle, the grids on each side may be regarded as figures of Euclidean  geometry or of Galois  geometry. In Euclidean geometry, these grids…

New Key

See Langer (Harvard U. Press, Third Edition, Jan. 31, 1957, pp. 3-4-5). See also Old Key : Pythagoras, harmony, and the 3-4-5 triangle.

Prime Cut

See that phrase in this journal.

The Seventh Stage

Robin Williams and the Stages of Math i)   shock & denial ii)  anger iii) bargaining iv) depression v)  acceptance And then… vi)  checking vii) Joan Rivers See also…