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My long-awaited plan realized: I am in Greenwich CT working at a hedge fund. It is either boring or fascinating; I can't decide yet which. Maybe bolth ( Read more... ) -
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experiment: taking a photo every half-hour, regardless of how much visual progress I've made.
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day 3: masking tape action!
day 3: sky
day 3: less tape, more terrain
took a day off, went to the art institute to see Magritte's ``The Banquet.'' (Here is a photo in someone's flickr. Here is another photo, with a domokun?) -
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I finally photographed my completed half of the mural, for those of you who haven't seen it.
AND, I finally began on the other side of the mural. Check out my progress!
day 1: mountains
day 2: starting on the hills
day 2: more foothills
day 2: terrain!Additionally, I'm fixing up my computers. I found a whole ton of photos from senior year of high ( Read more... ) -
Spencer Bloch quotes
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From: Mame Maloney Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 21:41:32 ( Read more... ) -
ouch
In the introductory pages of E.T. Bell's Men of Mathematics is quoted: "In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy---an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.---Henri Lebesgue (1936)." Someone has scribbled next to this in the margin, "ouch." -
Galois, the man
I read a funny story about Evariste Galois. Apparently, he was required to take some oral exam at the École Polytechnique. He got flustered (although, arguably, he knew twice as much mathematics as his examiners). At any rate, one of his examiners had the pomp and obstinance to argue with Galois on a mathematical point (on which, in retrospect, ( Read more... ) -
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You should check out this (very short) poem by Maurice Machover:
Ode to the Continuum Hypothesis
