Tag: Logicomix

The Crosswicks Curse

Continues. It was a dark and stormy night … — Page 180, Logicomix

Through the Vanishing Point*

Marshall McLuhan in "Annie Hall" — "You know nothing of my work." Related material —  "I need a photo opportunity I want a shot at redemption Don't want to end…

Cartoon Graveyard

For some background, see "Cartoon Graveyard" and "Many Dimensions."

Romancing the Cube

It was a dark and stormy night… — Page 180, Logicomix “… the class of reflections is larger in some sense over an arbitrary field than over a…

Tale

A reviewer says Steve Martin finds in his new novel An Object of Beauty  "a sardonic morality tale." From this journal on the day The Cube  was published…

Search

An Epic Search for Truth — Subtitle of Logicomix , a work reviewed in the December 2010 Notices of the American Mathematical Society  (see previous post). Some future…

Absolute Ambition

"It's my absolute ambition that you are touched to the core of your being with the content…." — Julie Taymor on Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark  (Playbill video,…

Today's Sermon

Mathematics and Religion, continued– Calvin Jongsma, review of an anthology titled Mathematics and the Divine— "Believers of many faiths have found significant points of contact between their religious…

Mathematics and Narrative, continued:

A graphic novel reviewed in the current Washington Post  features Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell– Related material: Whitehead on Fano’s finite projective three-space: “This is proved by…