Tag: St. Andrew’s Day 2014
Or: Concepts of Space 1976 according to Cullinane: 1976 according to Plotnick: “Irony and ridicule are entertaining and effective, and . . . at the same time they are…
Continued from Black Friday … "Tell me no secrets, tell me some lies." — Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
Reality's Mirror: Exploring the Mathematics of Symmetry — "Here is a book that explains in laymen language what symmetry is all about, from the lowliest snowflake and flounder to…
Continued from June 17, 2009 — "I sit now in a little room off the bar at four-thirty in the morning drinking ochas and then mescal and writing this…
From "A Piece of the Storm," by the late poet Mark Strand — A snowflake, a blizzard of one…. From notes to Malcolm Lowry's "La Mordida" — he had invested,…
The Regular Tetrahedron The seven symmetry axes of the regular tetrahedron are of two types: vertex-to-face and edge-to-edge. Take these axes as the "points" of a Fano plane….