Jesus, no wonder Lionel had a stroke. What a nightmare it must have been for him to see the honest rebellion that came out of World War Two taken over by a witless phony like Warhol . . . the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Lights, Noise, Love the Bomb! And then to see a bedrock madman like Ginsberg copping out with tolerance poems and the same ( Read more... )

Poincaré, in several of his famous essays on the philosophy of science, characterized the difference between mathematics and physics as follows: In mathematics, if the quantity A is equal to the quantity B, and B is equal to C, then A is equal to C; that is, in modern terminology: mathematical equality is a transitive relation. But in the ( Read more... )

i finished my last exam today: anth 101. i probably got a D. this will be the first D of my life. do i care?

not a damn bit: i'm graduating sunday. see you mother fuckers on the other side.

the schism between psychosis and creativity is a narrow, yet very deep one. LSD bridges the two but provides a very weak foothold. the mindhold is even weaker -- a balancing act featuring serotonin and dopamine. god knows what else. then it hits you: you're tripping. this is it, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. but that's a risky ( Read more... )

2010 will be a normal year

"In the first place, there were three kinds of human beings, not merely the two sexes, male and female, as at present: there was a third kind as well, which had equal shares of the other two, and whose name survives though, the thing itself has vanished. For "man-woman" was then a unity in form no less than name, composed of both sexes and sharing ( Read more... )

The Lebesgue differentiation theorem and Szemerédi regularity lemma. I couldn't have found a better topic myself. I have an indecent amount of work ahead of me.

This is so stupid. It is completely devoid of intelligence in every way. I am stuck in this God-forsaken library for 3 hours sticking bar codes on German mathematical journals from the early 1800s.

No one reads these. No one can read these, nor does anyone want to read these ( Read more... )

Cosmic Cantina was the clear winner. Yet again, Qdoba's tortilla was too sticky and stuck to my palate. And Chipotle's guacamole was disgusting. It was no competition.

Chase is now a level-17 Mathematician. Newly acquired abilities, skills, detriments ( Read more... )