Re: [FRIAM] The last bookstore

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 1:54 PM Steve Smith wrote: > That is a cool anecdote Roger... and I thank you for your own > moving-book-sale when you left Santa Fe (10 years ago now???) and I picked > up a boxfull of books I didn't need (but really appreciated anyway). > On Powell's website, their logo

Re: [FRIAM] GULP, ONLINE:Today's Sermon:: a minor awokening

As one who has regularly made such mistakes over my entire lifetime (all the way back into the early '80s, posting to BBSes and Minitel), one heuristic works the best: Everything you say and do with "digital media" is *public*. There are no private tools. All your emails are public. All the data

[FRIAM] For Labor Day!

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[FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

The 19th-century discovery of numbers called “quaternions” gave mathematicians a way to describe rotations in space, forever changing physics and math. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra-20180906/?fbclid=IwAR32bY8dnkg_hCYImiFlJgJL3g_r1CR9Eos4V_YEPcb7bvYJ

Re: [FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

I wrote the following for Reuben Hersh’s memorial. The story is from when Reuben, Vera and I were in the same carpool to UNM. During one of our commutes, Reuben and I were sharing the back seat and Reuben brought up the subject of quaternions. For the mathematician quaternions, which are the ex

Re: [FRIAM] OFFLINE:Today's Sermon:: a minor awokening

Eric (in your capacity as the one who inspired me to write) and others, You can write about “Nick” just so long as you are writing about the Transcendental Nick, not the actual one. Is that clear? Glen, and I are having a discussion on this very point, off line. Just who is it that we are

Re: [FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

Lovely. TJ Tom Johnson - t...@jtjohnson.com Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) *NM Foundation for Open Government* *Check out It's The People'

Re: [FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

Tom - Great find!   I'd never seen the "belt trick" animated like this... SimTable's progress finally has demanded widespread adoption of quaternions for the "traditional" reason of gimbal lock but with other side-benefits here and there.    This has lead to a strong spate of most of the team try

Re: [FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

This book has been in my wishlist for-fscking-ever (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tmesis#English - thanks Dave!): New Foundations for Classical Mechanics https://bookshop.org/books/new-foundations-for-classical-mechanics-9789027725264/9789027725264 On 9/7/20 2:48 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Tom

Re: [FRIAM] Today's Sermon:: a minor awokening

Hi EricS, It’s a classist designation, that refers (I suppose) to white people who make their living working out of doors. I suppose it to arise from the fact that many of the original settlers of the south were of Scottish / Irish descent, and so ill prepared for bright and high southern

Re: [FRIAM] Today's Sermon:: a minor awokening

Sorry, Eric, Dumb error on my part. I didn’t look at the link. That alternative explanation for “redneck” looks really good; I had never heard of it. Of course, the one may be a reference to the other. But my interpretation smacks of Northeastern snootiness, so I suspect the banda

Re: [FRIAM] OFFLINE:Today's Sermon:: a minor awokening

It’s interesting you should have ended your email with that term, Nick. I just (in a different medium) learned the meaning of it a few weeks ago. But a more complete source is https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2015/05/20/is-west-virginia-s-coal-history-a-goldmine-mine-wars/

Re: [FRIAM] Today's Sermon:: a minor awokening

So now I am confused, Nick. I had always assumed just what you say, that it referred in particular to farmers, who out in fields for endless days, bent over ploughs and such, get sunburned. It was the guy who goes by Beau of the Fifth Column who recited that little thing about the West Virgini

Re: [FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

Such a wonderful and uniquely Reuben thing to do. I loved to see his delight in humanity and mathematics. -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/vir