Tag: The Judas Seat
The previous post, Infinite Jest, suggests a midrash on “–1/12” (i.e., minus one-twelfth): Judas.
“1 + 2 + 3 + … = –1/12.” — Keith Devlin, Sept. 2, 2014 Robin Williams and the Stages of Math i) shock & denial ii)…
Some webpages at finitegeometry.org discuss group actions on Sylvester’s duads and synthemes. Those pages are based on the square model of PG(3,2) described in the 1980’s by Steven…
Phrase: Spy Wednesday — “The Wednesday before Good Friday, when Judas bargained to become the spy of the Jewish Sanhedrim. (Matt. xxvi. 3–5, 14–16.)” — E. Cobham Brewer,…
The Judas Seat Janet Maslin in today’s New York Times: Dear Dan Brown, All Eyes Are on You “The much-borrowed Brown formula involves some very specific things. The…
Final Club For the feast of St. Matthias (traditional calendar)– from Amazon.com, a quoted Library Journal review of Geoffrey Wolff‘s novel The Final Club: “‘What other colleges call…