Rigorous Proofwork meant something entirely different to the eighteenth century than it means to us in the post-Hilbert world. When physics and mathematics were more closely married, you could get away with a lot of iffy, and often fundamentlaly incorrect, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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It is good, every now and again, to take a break from the usual Frederick babble parade and watch some competent characters take care of business.
It’s true. Leonhard Euler, author of over sixty volumes of ground-breaking mathematical work, the man called “analysis incarnate”, was indeed part of the historical Frederick universe. After Frederick’s father gutted Prussian academic life (he once sent his Tobacco Club fool […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hmmm… I really should have picked a different color of sky that wasn’t so close to Frederick Blue.
Frederick William I, father to Frederick the Great, had a more or less wretched life, and in turn did his best to make life wretched for all those around him. He probably had some form of the disease that drove […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a conductor, the concentration of free electrons in gold metal is 5.90×10^22 cm^3. As an aphrodisiac, gold is the representative of the sun, which rules the fourth seal or chakra of the human energy body.
There are so many words in this episode. What do the light fixtures look like in the Corning Glass Works? The world will never know because they are all, to a fixture, covered by word balloons. Apparently, when not called […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I poured my heart, my very soul, such as it is, into drawing those light fixtures. All that was good in me came onto the page that day, and now that it is all gone, I am left to sit […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First of all, we owe profound thanks and probably some sort of Wookie Life Debt to Mark Poutenis over at Thinking Ape Blues for his timeless artistic rendering of Frederick, Newton, and the dastardly Dali. Give it a look! It’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…