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On Walter Isaacson’s The Innovators : “Yet as the book’s five hundred–plus pages unwind, Isaacson interrupts himself to present small bromides about what it means to innovate and…
Raiders of the Lost Archetype “… an unexpected development: the discovery of a lost archetype….” — “The Lost Theorem,” by Lee Sallows, Mathematical Intelligencer, Fall 1997 Related material:…
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, quoted in a webpage dated October 7, 2014 (presumably according to Australian time): "For the Athenians, kleos mattered more than anything, according to Goldstein. 'Kleos is fame: it’s the deed…
This post was suggested by today's previous posts, Broom Bridge Day and Taking the Fork, as well as by Alyssa is Wonderland. For the meaning of the title, see Serpent +…
Related material: Alyssa Milano in this journal —
Wikipedia on Broom (or Broome, or Brougham) Bridge, where on 16 October 1843 Hamilton discovered quaternions: "The 16 October is sometimes referred to as Broomsday (in reference to Broome…
For Dorothy Maharam Stone, mathematician, who reportedly died on Sept. 27, 2014 (Gwyneth Paltrow’s birthday): “When I die…. I want it to be Hollywood all the way. I don’t want…
The title is from a Log24 post, "Diabolically Complex Riddle," of Sept. 27, 2014. (See also a search for "Diabolic" in this journal, which yields an application to…
My own contribution to an event of the Mathematical Association of America: Rick’s Tricky Six and The Judas Seat. The Polster tetrahedral model of a finite geometry appears, notably,…
Parallelograms and the structure of the 3×3 array — Click to enlarge: A different approach to parallelograms and arrays — Click for original post: