Category Archives: math

the continuum hypothesis having to do with the not very likely possiblity that if you put your finger down on the number line would you hit anything, and how the media often is lazy about describing things in math terms;

Cancellation of multivariable math at Paly and Gunn, Gunn and Paly, Paly or Gunn, Gunn or Paly, and or Gunn and or Paly and or Gunn

Posted on April 3, 2023 by markweiss86

  I’m a photo of Fields Prize winner Paul J. Cohen and I do not disprove this message At Tuesday’s school board meeting, Don Austin addressed the forum to respond to the numerous comments from students and parents about the … Continue reading →

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Gunn hoops ranked #1 in CCS

Posted on December 7, 2021 by markweiss86

Desite losing to Bellarmine by 36 points: by MaxPreps, minimum of five games played; Titans start 5-1 with wins over Cupertino, Kent Lockhart not included; local rules, gravity, chaos, Heisenberg, still apply. AI is Allen Iverson not your stupid algorhythm. … Continue reading →

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Gunn rolling 7s

Posted on October 19, 2021 by markweiss86

Gunn football Titans or Big Red are seventh in the CCS in scoring, 267 points or thirty-eight-and-one-seventh points per outing. And number three in the county, behind only Los Gatos and Leigh of San Jose. Twenty-one of 93 teams exceed … Continue reading →

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By Hilbert writ, by Manning sealed

Posted on February 13, 2021 by markweiss86

Barbara Manning wrote and recorded an original song as a tribute to mathematicians like Cantor, Goedel, Hilbert, Cohen and Good Will Hunting. lyrics It’s hard to be the only one who knows something that’s true To stand alone as colleagues groan
They’ll … Continue reading →

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Twenty five years of Dawn Richardson drums

Posted on November 5, 2020 by markweiss86

Dawn with Four Non Blondes circa 1994 Dawn with Mental 99 (Joe Gore Dawn Richardson duo) 2010 There’s more to say but for now I tagged this “music” “sfmoma’ “sex” I forget when I split “sex” and “sfmoma” into two … Continue reading →

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Fifty seven eighty one skidoo

Posted on September 29, 2020 by markweiss86

NOFX VS ‘Nolf’ NOFX is a punk band of considerable renown that features two Jewish members and has a set titled “Two Heebs and “ something, and on that flimsy basis I watched part of their recent podcast video as … Continue reading →

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Erno Rubik four states

Posted on September 16, 2020 by markweiss86

I met a Stanford student who set the world record for solving the cube while juggling.

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Diptych

Posted on August 1, 2020 by markweiss86

1) Marguerite is my neighbor although I’ve only met her once or twice;2) Jesse her daughter I’ve not quite met, but I know her husband, her kids and her mother in law;Good luck Jesse Fletcher Ladomirak running for School Board! … Continue reading →

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Abel VS Fields

Posted on February 1, 2020 by markweiss86

The Times has an obit of Louis Nirenberg 94 “one of the great mathematicians: winner of the 2015 Abel prize the math worlds equivalent of a noble. Them‘s fighting words to friends and survivors of Paul Jake Owen the fields … Continue reading →

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Painter who can describe CH

Posted on October 19, 2019 by markweiss86

At Gallery House, there are two cityscapes of NYC by Mitun (Balman) who also, I discovered, studied math well enough to, several years later, after Berkeley, describe CH (by Paul J. Cohen) with considerable depth. I wish I could have … Continue reading →

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