Tag: May 19 Gestalt

A Stitch in Time

The most recent version of a passage quoted in posts tagged "May 19 Gestalt" — "You've got to pick up every stitch." — Donovan

The Lindbergh Manifesto

"Creation is the birth of something, and something cannot come from nothing." — Photographer Peter Lindbergh at his website From a biography of Lindbergh — "… it took Lindbergh…

Cube Space

A sequel to this afternoon's Rubik Quote: "The Cube was born in 1974 as a teaching tool to help me and my students better understand space and 3D….

Priority Claim

From an arXiv preprint submitted July 18, 2011, and last revised on March 11, 2013 (version 4): "By our construction, this vector space is the dual of our hypercube…

Preforming

Photo caption in NY Times  today— a pianist "preforming" in 1967. (See today's previous post.) The pianist's life story seems in part to echo that of Juliette Binoche…

Blue Note à Quatre

The Concert à Quatre  "was Messiaen's last work, left unfinished on his desk at his death. His widow undoubtedly followed his wishes and style in completing the orchestration."…

Mathematics and Gestalt

"We acknowledge a theorem's beauty  when we see how the theorem 'fits'  in its place, how it sheds light around itself,  like a Lichtung, a clearing in the…

Tuesday May 19, 2009

Exquisite Geometries "By far the most important structure in design theory is the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24)." — "Block Designs," 1995, by Andries E. Brouwer "The Steiner…

Saturday May 19, 2007

Point of View "In a sense, too, Wallace Stevens has spent a lifetime writing a single poem. What gives his best work its astonishing power and vitality is…

Wednesday May 19, 2004

Style In memory of Lynn H. Loomis: The above diagram is from a (paper) journal note of October 21, 1999. It pictures the relationship of my own discovery,…