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Edge still has not revealed its New Year’s Eve Annual Question 2008, but, due to a leak to The Independent, I know that it is is wonderful:
What have you changed your mind about? Why?
Indeed, what have you changed your mind about in 2007?
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Numbering at Bethlehem.1566, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Source: Wikimedia Commons, higher resolution.
Actually, there is more geometry in the painting than arithmetic.
I do not know whether you are prepared to believe me, but yesterday I was running through the labyrinths of Heathrow Terminal 1, shouting at the full force of my lungs: “Hey! Is there anyone from British Airways around?”
There were no response…
As I have already mentioned, I have started, in collaboration with David Corfield, yet another blog, A Dialogue on Infinity. My approach to the issue of infinity is that of a practicing mathematician. In particular, I repeat Vladimir Arnold’s famous claim that tires on the pictures below are manifistations of infinity in the real world.
Details can be found in my post.
I started yet another blog, A Dialogue on Infinity, a joint venture with David Corfield. Meanwhile, here is the only decent picture found in Google Images:
It is an advertisement, as you can easily guess, for BIC. Source: Ads of the World.[Advertising Agency: TBWA Hunt Lascaris, South Africa. Creative Director: Tony Granger
Copywriter: Clare Mcnally. Art Director: Jan Jacobs.]
But I warn you against an attempt to search for images related to Eternity: you will find yourself in the Kingdom of Kitch, and horrendous kitch.
Satire on “False Perspective” by William Hogarth, 1753 - “Whoever makes a Design without the knowledge of Perspective will be liable to such absurdities as are shewn in this Frontispiece.”
- Source: Wikimedia Commons
Вокруг него система кошек, Система окон, ведер, дров Висела, темный мир размножив На царства узкие дворов.
Nikolai Zabolotskii
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