La terre nous en apprend plus long sur nous que les livres. Parce qu’elle nous résiste.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Terre des Hommes
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The Textuality of Mathematics
As a discipline in the humanities, textual criticism exists in a singular category: it is a distinct field of study, but its fundamental aims and methods of analysis are far-reaching, applicable to texts of not only literature, but also religious studies, history, and sociology, to name a few. In a similar way, mathematics occupies a unique place in the sciences. It is a well-defined subject, but its methods are relevant to most, if not all, scientific fields. There is, therefore, a parallel of sorts between mathematics and textual criticism. But between textual criticism and mathematics, there is a deep chasm, representative of a still all-too present, broader divide between the sciences and the humanities, expressed a half-century ago Continue reading…
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Change on a barrier island is slow, but definitive, new landscapes carved from the melting of the land into the sea
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Scottsville, VA (Smalltown, USA), between the railroad and the river, and not much more than a passing thought
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José, a retired mason originally from Málaga, but now living in France, making paella