`... they must keep hold of it until they are led to contemplate the very nature of numbers by thought alone, practising it not for the purpose of buying and selling like merchants or hucksters, but for war, and for the soul itself, to make easier the change from the world of becoming to real being and truth.`
"Then, my dear Glaucon, it is proper to lay down that study by law, and to persuade those who are to share in the highest things in the city to go for and tackle the art of calculation, and not as amateurs... "
[38, Republic 525c]
https://people.reed.edu/~mayer/math112.html/math112.pdf
incidentally, if you don't have a time-stretching tool handy, you can always pitch-shift a track down by a factor of two, without changing the key
`Highly anticipated, the album surpassed all commercial expectations. It debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart on October 8, 1976, becoming only the third album in history to achieve that feat (after British singer/composer Elton John's albums Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy and Rock of the Westies, both from 1975), and the first by an American artist.`
one of the greatest basslines ever written. i covered it with a band called Action Jackson a few times... it was one of the toughest basslines i've ever had to learn! the trick for me to figuring it out was to time stretch it to a much lower tempo, so that each note of the bass part was extended
`Bassist Nathan Watts remembered getting home at 3 am after very long hours in the studio, only to have Wonder phone to request him return immediately to help with "I Wish".`
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_in_the_Key_of_Life
Songs in the Key of Life - Wikipedia
`The university system, run by Milliken — who assumed his role only last week — and the Board of Regents, is independent under the state Constitution. But the governor can exercise political sway over the regents, whose members he appoints. Newsom also holds an ex-officio seat on the board.`
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-seeking-1-billion-fine-175404847.html
Trump seeks $1-billion fine against UCLA. Newsom says 'we'll sue,' calling it extortion
The Trump administration has proposed the University of California pay more than $1 billion to settle antisemitism charges and restore frozen grant funding...
as seen on zuck's site :)
#math #physics #meme #internet
is the limit of a triangle as the largest angle tends towards 180 degrees still a triangle?
`One of the greatest constructive statesmen ever sent to any English colony. The assembly which he created passed an act known as "The Charter of Liberties and Privileges" which assumed the sovereignty of the people and proclaimed religious liberty, the right of suffrage, trial by jury and no taxation without the consent of the assembly. Dongan's charter was the Magna Charta of American constitutional liberty. Many of its principles are embedded in the structure of our federal government.` -FDR
`In a 1687 report on the colony to the Committee on Trade in London, he also presciently described its remarkable... heterogeneity, which only grew across the centuries: "Here bee not many of the Church of England; few Roman Catholicks; abundance of Quakers preachers men and Women especially; Singing Quakers, Ranting Quakers; Sabbatarians Antisabbatarians; Some Anabaptists, some Independents; some Jews; in short of all sorts of opinions there are some, and the most part of none at all."`
