I read Walter Tevis’s The Queen’s Gambit years ago and loved it. His other filmed books, The Hustler and The Man Who Fell to Earth are great too, and made good movies but the books are still worthy of investigation. The Color of Money doesn’t really have anything much in common with Scorsese’s film and […]
Three-Dimensional Chess — shadowplay
One day a traveller climbed up on a mountain where he saw a hermit woman meditating with no one around her. Surprised to see her there all by herself, he asked: “What are you doing here alone in such a solitude place? You are not scared if something happens to you?” To which she replied: […]
An Inspiring Zen Story……… — Boundless Blessings by Kamal
When I first became interested in the history of mathematics, now literally a lifetime ago, it was dominated by a big events, big names approach to the discipline. It was also largely presentist, only interested in those aspects of the history that are still relevant in the present. As well as this, it was internalist […]
There’s more to reading than just looking at the words — The Renaissance Mathematicus
A New Year’s resolution is a tradition, most common in the Western Hemisphere but also found in the Eastern Hemisphere, in which a person resolves to continue good practices, change an undesired trait or behavior, to accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise improve their life. ~Wikipedia My new year resolutions are usually habits that I want to […]
New year resolutions — karlien09
A review of the 1957 classic album by Miles Davis – ‘Round About Midnight.
Miles Davis – ‘Round About Midnight (1957) — The Ultimate Music Library
Ciscography 