Monthly Archives: July 2012

soap films in curved space

A few of the many triply periodic minimal surfaces can be generated from a quadrilateral slice through a tetrahedron of mirrors, as refined by Surface Evolver. I had the idea that the same concept, applied to one of the analogous … Continue reading

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passerby

When I die, I’d prefer to slip away unnoticed. Ideally, let there be no record of the dates of my birth and death, only a floruit.

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divided by common letters

I’ve been getting Russian spams in which some of the Cyrillic letters “Аа В Ее К М Н Оо Рр Сс Т у Хх” are replaced by the similar Latin letters “Aa B Ee K M H Oo Pp Cc … Continue reading

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