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"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things."

Henri Poincare — Science and Hypothesis

"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air…"

Jorge Luis Borges — The Library of Babel

"What I cannot create, I do not understand. Know how to solve every problem that has been solved."

Richard Feynman — The Character of Physical Law

"The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit…"

G. H. Hardy — A Mathematician's Apology

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

Edsger W. Dijkstra — EWD

"No man steps in the same river twice."

Heraclitus — Fragments

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

Ludwig Wittgenstein — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Marginem

Marginem Todos

A list of todos for the Marginem site itself Todo List - Remove placeholder copy - Copy the marginalia "torn paper" image for fantastical images - x Update obsi…

Post Ideas

A collection of ideas to write and post on Marginem Math - The Direct Method - History of Equals and its Modern Usage - Riemannian/Affine Connections Tech - Wri…

"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest…"

Herman Melville — Moby-Dick

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it…"

Henry David Thoreau — Walden

Understanding oscillations through Young measures

We review oscillations and an introduction to Young measures as a means of encoding this behavior. Moreover, we explore simple examples which highlight the need for such an encoding, their role in real-world applications…

Issue 0: Establishing the signal

A first note on what this newsletter will cover and how it will evolve.

Feature Playground

Demonstrates every blog affordance in one place: multi-language run blocks, KaTeX, margin notes/footnotes, images, and ECharts.