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Sylvester's Birthday The following figure from a June 11, 1986, note illustrates Sylvester's "duads" and "synthemes" using the concept of an "inscape" (part B of the figure). As R….
Inscape My entry for New Year's Day links to a paper by Robert T. Curtis* from The Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (King Fahd University, Dhahran, Saudi…
Readings for Yom Kippur The film Pi is, in part, about an alleged secret name of God that can be uttered only on Yom Kippur. This is my…
Reciprocity From my entry of Sept. 1, 2003: "…the principle of taking and giving, of learning and teaching, of listening and storytelling, in a word: of reciprocity…. … E….
Today's birthday: James Joseph Sylvester "Mathematics is the music of reason." — J. J. Sylvester Sylvester, a nineteenth-century mathematician, coined the phrase "synthematic totals" to describe some structures…