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Dead Reckoning

Continued from yesterday evening Today's mathematical birthday —  Claude Chevalley, 11 Feb. 1909 – 28 June 1984. From MacTutor — Chevalley's daughter, Catherine Chevalley, wrote about her father in "Claude Chevalley…

En Masse

Yale Daily News  staff columnist Scott Greenberg today,  in a piece titled "Filling Religion's Void" — "The secularization of college students in America has seemed a foregone conclusion for…

Black Key

The title was suggested by a post on The Piano and by the dimensions of an image in this morning’s previous post:  404 x 211 pixels, suggesting 4/04,…

Everybody Comes to Rick's

Continued from a post of January 28 — In Memory of Pete Seeger. The spiritual tribute link in that post suggests a review of the following page from a…

Chapman's Homer

Louis Sahagun in today's Los Angeles Times— The late Professor Marvin W. Meyer  "was our Indiana Jones,"  said James L. Doti, president of Chapman University in Orange, where…

Everybody Comes to Rick's

(Continued) “The key is the cocktail that begins the proceedings.” – Brian Harley, Mate in Two Moves See also yesterday's Endgame , as well as Play and Interplay from April 28…  and, as…

Thursday January 15, 2009

Gate or, EverybodyComes to Rick’s(abstract version) For Mary Gaitskill, continued from June 21, 2008:  This minimal artis the basis of thechess set imagefrom Tuesday:   Related images: “The key…

Saturday June 28, 2008

The Cocktail G. H. Hardy on chess problems–   "… the key-move should be followed by a good many variations, each requiring its own individual answer." (A Mathematician's…

Saturday June 21, 2008

For Mary Gaitskill (See Eight is a Gate and Faith, Doubt, Art, and The New Yorker.) A sructure from today's previous entry:   September 2, 2006: From Notre-Dame…

Saturday September 2, 2006

Today's birthdays: Salma Hayek ("Frida") "Shinin' like a diamond  she had tombstones in her eyes." (For the above figures, see Log24, 5/17/06, "Tombstone," and Log24, 9/13/03, "For the…