December 18, 2006

  • For Spielberg's Birthday

    Fade to Black:
    Martin Gardner in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, June/July 2005 (pdf):

    "I did a column in Scientific American on minimal art, and I reproduced one of Ed Rinehart's [sic] black paintings.  Of course, it was just a solid square of pure black."

    Black square 256x256

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    The Notices of the American Mathematical Society, January 2007 (pdf):

    "This
    was just one of the many moments in this sad tale when there were no
    whistle-blowers. As a result the entire profession has received a very
    public and very bad black mark."

    -- Joan S. Birman
    Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
    Barnard College and
    Columbia University