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Nightmare

Continued from August 5, 2002… See also Venn's Trinity ("diamonds and rust") and a Monday death.

Miniature Lowry

A review describes the main character in the 1981 novel The Knife in My Hands — "His other peculiar characteristic is a fascination, developed during his university years, with the Cabala…

Excited about Space

Background — A search for the title in this journal. Grothendieck was at times excited about space: "The notion of space  is certainly one of the oldest in mathematics. It is fundamental…

Precision

An image from yesterday afternoon's post Portal: Related material: A review of the novel The Knife in My Hands  shown in the photo above.   Blurbs for a novel…

Foundations

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Portal

Two images from September 2014 — This journal: Google Street Views:

Nine Years Ago

On this date

X-School

The Xaverian school today.

Credit Card

Detail from the online Fortune  magazine this morning:                    Dateline of linked article:              …

For CCNY Commencement Day

The link "an autobiographical essay" in one of the posts now tagged "on140911" has been updated. The essay, by the late CCNY number theorist Harvey Cohn, gives views…