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Ben Brantley in The New York Times today on a Broadway opening: “As Christopher navigates his way through an increasingly unfamiliar landscape, both physical and emotional, the arcs…
(Continued from Beautiful Mathematics, Dec. 14, 2013) “Seemingly unrelated structures turn out to have mysterious correspondences.” — Jim Holt, opening paragraph of a book review in the Dec. 5, 2013, issue of The New…
I.e., Neugebauer (See The Source, 9 PM Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014.) See also Alms for Oblivion (January 22, 2006).
With Sarah Silverman … … Continued from The Story of N (October 15, 2010). “I remember how the darkness doubled….”
"In ancient Greece, 9 was the number of the Muses, patron goddesses of the arts. They were the daughters of Mnemosyne ('memory'), the source of imagination, which in…
“Nine is a very powerful Nordic number.” — Katherine Neville, The Magic Circle See also Arcade Fire in this journal.
From the preface to Introduction to the Construction of Class Fields , by Harvey Cohn (Cambridge University Press, 1985): “It is an elementary observation that an integral right triangle has…
From the title page of a book quoted here yesterday: Another title, in memory of a former mayor of Tel Aviv who reportedly died yesterday: “President Reuven Rivlin called…
The title is the usual pronunciation of MSRI, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at 17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, California. The late Scandinavian novelist Stieg Larsson might prefer to…