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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
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…