Month: June 2007
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ART WARS continued:
Samuel Pepys on a musical performance (Diary, Feb. 27, 1668):
"When the Angel comes down"
"When the Angel Comes Down, and the Soul Departs," a webpage on dance in Bali:
"Dance is also a devotion to the Supreme
Being.""I went to Bali to a remote village by a volcanic mountain...."
"No se puede vivir sin amar."
Log24 on St. Peter's Day, 2004:
"And so to bed."
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Commencement week ends:
The Source"Beautiful indeed
is the source of truth.
To measure
the changes
of time and space
the smartest are nothing." -
What is Truth, continued:
Framing
truth
On "framing" and "spin"
in journalism:"... Packaging is unavoidable.
Facts rarely, if ever,
speak for themselves."-- Matthew C. Nisbet,
Assistant Professor
of "Communication,"
June 6, 2007If they could, they might
say "We was framed!"Facts cannot, of course,
speak for themselves
to those who do not
understand their language.
Example:
A picture that appeared in
Log24 on June 7, 2005:
Click for details.
Attempt to
frame the picture:Analogies
"A functor is an analogy."
-- Anonymous
The best mathematicians "see
analogies between analogies."
-- Banach, according to UlamFor further details,
click on the link
"Analogies" above.See also the analogies in
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Final Arrangements, continued:
Masters of Chaos
From the May 6, 2007,
New York Times,
Charles McGrath on
Philip K. Dick:
His early novels, written in two weeks or less, were published in
double-decker Ace paperbacks that included two books in one, with a
lurid cover for each. "If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double,"
an editor once remarked, "it would be cut down to two 20,000-word
halves with the Old Testament retitled as 'Master of Chaos' and the New
Testament as 'The Thing With Three Souls.'"
Click to enlarge.
As for "the thing with
three souls"--Part I:
"Educate, Empower, Entertain"
-- Motto of Yolanda KingPart II:
Three universities
(but not those of
Martin Myerson)--
Princeton, Harvard, Cambridge -
A Mathematical Narrative
It is now 3:07 AMJune 7 in New Zealand.
Examination Day
(For the college curriculum,
see the New Zealand
Qualifications Authority.)If Cullinane College were Hogwarts--
Last-minute exam info:
The Lapis Philosophorum
"The lapis was thought of as a unity and therefore often stands
for the prima materia in general."
-- Aion, by C.
G. Jung"Its discoverer was of the opinion that he had produced the
equivalent of the primordial protomatter which exploded into the
Universe."
-- The Stars My Destination, by Alfred
BesterAnd from Bester's The Deceivers:
Meta Physics
"'... Think of a match. You've got a chemical head of potash,
antimony, and stuff, full of energy waiting to be released.
Friction does it. But when Meta excites and releases energy, it's
like a stick of dynamite compared to a match. It's the chess
legend for real.''I don't know it.'
'Oh, the story goes that a philosopher invented chess for the amusement
of an Indian rajah. The king was so delighted that he told the
inventor to name his reward and he'd get it, no matter what. The
philosopher asked that one grain of rice be placed on the first square
of the chessboard, two on the second, four on the third, and so on to
the sixty-fourth.''That doesn't sound like much.'
'So the rajah said. ...'"
Related material:
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Mathematics and Narrative, continued:
God, the Devil,
and a Bridge"... just as God defeats the
devil: this bridge exists ..."
-- Andre WeilThe "Mathematical"
Bridge at Queens' College,
Cambridge:
Some related material
might well be titled,
as in
the previous entry's
parody of a new book,
For details, see
Connecting Ideas
and
Blitzes at Wikipedia.(The reference in the parody
book cover above is to
Charles Matthews,
Wikipedia administrator
and former
Fellow of Queens' College.) -
Meanwhile, back at Harvard...
Devil in the DetailsThis morning was the
Princeton commencement.
Meanwhile...(Altered) photo at right
courtesy of Kenneth L.From the May 18 Harvard Crimson:
"Paul B. Davis ’07-’08, who contributed
to a collection of student essays
written in 2005 on the purpose
and structure of a Harvard education,
said that 'the devil is in the details'...."For the details, see
Al Gore and the
Absence of Truth(May 30, 2007).
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Whirligig continued...
Princeton:
A Whirligig Tour
Symbol from a
website on
"Presbyterian
Creedal Standards"The above symbol
appeared here
on 11/8/02.Related material:
1. The remarks of
Bradley Whitford
at Princeton's
Class Day yesterday:
2. An illustration from
Log 24 on 11/10/06:
Paul Robeson in
King Solomon's
Mines3. The Whirligig of Time
(1/5/03):
4. Natalie Angier, priestess of Scientism
(5/26/07), and her new book
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of
the Beautiful Basics of Science
(available as a special from
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