Word: non-euclidean
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...Livio’s biggest hurdle to overcome with “Is God a Mathematician?” is making over two millennia of high-level mathematical discoveries accessible to the reader who has never studied the more inscrutable and elaborate non-Euclidean geometry or knot theory. And it would seem that if anyone is primed for success in this difficult endeavor, it’s Livio, who is both an astrophysicist and the head of the Office of Public Outreach at the Hubble Space Telescope Institute. But while his approach is appealing to any curious reader, his inability...
...philosophy professor, whose name is Amalfitano, recreates one of Marcel Duchamp's ready-made artworks: he hangs up a geometry textbook outside his house by a string so that the elements can gradually corrupt and destroy its tidy diagrams. He contemplates the book for hours as random, meaningless, non-Euclidean reality invades it, forcing it to register the presence of a world it cannot describe. It is not one of Bolaño's most successful digressions, but it is an excellent metaphor for 2666 itself: "Images with no handhold," the professor says of those ruined pages, "images freighted with...
...looks like non-Euclidean geometry," Mattei said of the furniture...
...wasteland, its cellophane spaces crackling with emptiness, its border indistinct. Mountains of some synthetic material rim the flatness of every available inch of the hall's acres of aisle and plank; throughout the production, unexpected portions of this flatness rise and fall, thrusting the landscape of events into strange non-Euclidean configurations. A friend of the production has advanced the hypothesis that Lachow conceived the whole thing as an experiment in topology. It's possible. Ruling out any element of interpretation of Woyzeck would likely prove limiting...
...alone film directors. Kubrick picked perhaps the only subject which could sustain such extended self-conscious artistry; for once the medium was the message, and by following the shifts of shapes and the repetition of frames and camera movements, you experienced the space flight growth of non-Newtonian physics and non-Euclidean geometry. Despite Kubrick's avowed Platonism, his contention that man is moving away from a biological condition, the guts of the film remained subversively satiric. These astronauts weren't heroes, but celestial teamsters...