Quote of the Day: Cosma Shalizi, or why mathematicians are delightfully different from other people
Presented without comment, from a stray announcement on Cosma’s invaluable, slow-cooked blog, Three Toed Sloth.
Every human relationship is a unique and precious snowflake, but do we treat them that way when we model them mathematically? No.
Image: Hiroshige, “Kambara,” number 16 from The Fifty Three Stations of the Tokaido, 1831-4 (Hoeido edition). And yes, sometimes I do post so I can put up (and look at) pix I love.
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The Inverse Square Blog 
August 28, 2010 at 1:46 am
The first person to correctly describe the snowflake was a mathematician!
Johannes Kepler, De nive sexangula, 1611
August 30, 2010 at 7:57 am
Beautiful image. It looks like something that could be used to illustrate Kawabata’s Snow Country.
At least it’s very similar to the picture of Snow Country that I get in my mind.
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