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Conversations with an Empty Chair

Continued from August 20, 2013 In honor of Sam Peckinpah, the closing shot of his last film: “Am I still on?” — Ending line of  The Osterman Weekend  (1983)

Numbers

Useful Princeton

See… An Apple for Devlin (July 2) Thanks for having me on (July 11) Useful Idiot (Wikipedia article) Useful Fictions (a Princeton mathematics department Spring 2014 course) "Numbers themselves…

Mars Package

For Ursula K. Le Guin “For me it is a sign that we have fundamentally different conceptions of the work of the intelligence services.” — Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel…

Prequels

At the end of today’s previous post, Sequel, there is a tribute to jazz great Charlie Haden, who died yesterday. A darker requiem, for another musical figure who…

Sequel

A sequel to the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot : Contingent and Fluky Some variations on a thunderbolt  theme: These variations also exemplify the larger Verbum  theme: Escher’s Verbum Solomon’s Cube…

Thanks for having me on.

See also this  journal on April 12, 2014.

Mathematics Death

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Spiegel-Spiel des Gevierts

See Cube Symbology. “Da hats ein Eck“ 

Back to 1955

Nick Fury takes the Tesseract… … which travels back to 1955 (see The Call Girls, Nov. 3, 2013)… Above: A 1955 cover design by Robert Flynn. Images from December…