Showing posts with label Donald Coxeter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Coxeter. Show all posts
Friday, May 24, 2013

Who is the Clockmaker?

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Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) - oil painting by Salvador Dalí I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Questions on the History of Mathematics

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Arthur Miller Einstein and Schrödinger never fully accepted the highly abstract nature of Heisenberg's quantum mechanics, says Mi...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Model Building in Life

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"...underwriting the form languages of ever more domains of mathematics is a set of deep patterns which not only offer access to a...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Donald Coxeter

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Photo by Graham Challifour. Reproduced from Critchlow, 1979, p. 132. "I’m a Platonist — a follower of Plato — who believes that on...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Raindrops

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I dunno. After some thinking, how is it one can think that such an abstraction could descend into the modern mind, and think it reveals the ...
Sunday, June 08, 2008

Who said it?

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At this point in the development, although geometry provided a common framework for all the forces, there was still no way to complete the u...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Theoretical Excellence

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Although Aristotle in general had a more empirical and experimental attitude than Plato, modern science did not come into its own until Plat...
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Saturday, September 22, 2007

E8 and the Blackhole

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"I’m a Platonist — a follower of Plato — who believes that one didn’t invent these sorts of things, that one discovers them. In a sense...
Monday, March 19, 2007

Pasquale Del Pezzo and E8 Origination?

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" I’m a Platonist — a follower of Plato — who believes that one didn’t invent these sorts of things, that one discovers them. In a sens...
Monday, September 11, 2006

Donald Coxeter: The Man Who Saved Geometry

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"I’m a Platonist — a follower of Plato — who believes that one didn’t invent these sorts of things, that one discovers them. In a sens...