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