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Square-Triangle Diamond

The diamond shape of yesterday's noon post is not wholly without mathematical interest … The square-triangle theorem— "Every triangle is an n -replica" is true if and only if n…

The Purloined Diamond

(Continued) The diamond from the Chi-rho page of the Book of Kells — The diamond at the center of Euclid's Proposition I, according to James Joyce (i.e., the…

Doodle Dandy (continued)

See also Kells in this journal.

For the Clueless

"And she provided him besides with a ball of thread, bidding him to fasten the end of it to the entrance of the Labyrinth, and unwind it as…

The Head of Caesar

Remarks on Citizen Kane  from The New York Times— "… a kind of metaphysical detective story…. At the end we realize that the fragments are not governed by…