Tag: Crucible Raiders

Grundlagenkrise*

The title was suggested by a 1921 article by Hermann Weyl and by a review* of a more recent publication — The above Harvard Gazette  piece on Davos is from St. Ursula's Day,…

A Riddle for Davos

Hexagonale Unwesen Einstein and Thomas Mann, Princeton, 1938 See also the life of Diogenes Allen, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, a life that reportedly ended on the date— January…

The Crucible

"Though we had many pieces, we did not have the whole. It was thirty years before we deciphered the formula. But we did it at last. There at night…

Object Lesson

Yesterday's post on the current Museum of Modern Art exhibition "Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925" suggests a renewed look at abstraction and a fundamental building block: the cube. From a…

Kernels of Being

For the Pope in Germany— "We wish to see Jesus. For somehow we know, we suspect, we intuit, that if we see Jesus we will see what Meister…

Symmetric Generation

Suggested by yesterday's Relativity Problem Revisited and by Cassirer on Objectivity— From Symmetric Generation of Groups , by R.T. Curtis (Cambridge U. Press, 2007)— "… we are saying…