Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Tuesday, June 3, 2003

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Telling the tale of text: "There within the shadows of the text, there lies the unbidden thought not yet formed. Watch as they circle the text, nipping at the stray word or sentence, twisting the nuance to say something else. A simple line becomes a tangle of innuendo, saying more than the writer intended." [Private Ink]


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Microsoft vs. India: 'Indian President Dr APJ Kalam last week called for a halt to the "devastating" impact of proprietary software. He revealed that he had what he called "differences" with the Microsoft founder when the two met last November." [The Register]


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Tesselating for the science, art, and the fun of it: "Totally Tessellated is the name of a site devoted, as advertised, totally to the art, science and fun of tessellation. On their page about the math and science of tessellation..." [Major FUN's Daily Briefing]

Here is a picture and a link to a collection of hyperbolic tessellations (and other related figures) I made some years ago:

CSC Mathematical Topics