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Teleportation Web?

"In this book, I will describe one of the biggest ideas to come out of mathematics in the last fifty years: the Langlands Program, considered by many as…

The X-Men Tree

Continued from November 12, 2013. A post on that date showed the tree from Waiting for Godot  along with the two X-Men patriarchs. See also last night's Chapel post, which…

Mathematics and Rhetoric

Jim Holt in the current (Dec. 5) New York Review of Books— One form of Eros is the sexual desire aroused by the physical beauty of a particular beloved…

Cruel Star, Part II

Symmetry, Duality, and Cinema — Title of a Paris conference held June 17, 2010 From that conference, Edward Frenkel on symmetry and duality— "Symmetry plays an important role…

Cruel Star

This morning's New York Times  obituaries describe a memoir titled "Under a Cruel Star." This is not  the story of Kayshonne Insixieng May, who appears with mathematics professor…