If anybody with access to "American Literary Manuscripts : An Essay Review" by John C Broderick (Resources for American Literary Study (1976) 6 (1): 85–95) could share the review with me, I would be most grateful.

Hoping someone can help me here: what would be a library or online resource (or other options) where I could find some of the publications of the (long defunct) Center for Editions of American Authors? Particularly their Newsletter, their reply to E. Wilson, their Statement of editorial principles.

I have an amazing opportunity Sept. 15-19. I'll be at the Santa Fe Institute with a dozen invited humanists and scientists discussing this topic: "How do we reconcile traditional humanistic inquiry with mathematical modeling approaches that are reshaping knowledge production?" 1/5

Reposted from Mathstodon, because I am still interested: In "Cantar de Mio Cid", the infantes de Carrión, married to the Cid's daughters, decide to repudiate them, take them to an isolated area, beat them within an inch of their lives, and abandon them. (Cont.)

truly makes you think

I firmly believe that buying books and reading books are two distinctly separate hobbies.

At Math Reviews we started recently an experiment of sorts: an Editors colloquium, a series of short, sporadic talks where we discuss some aspect of our research to our colleagues (who are also mathematicians, but in different areas). 1/2

It's good that Venn diagrams are trending because it gives me an excuse to repost one I made (hallelujah!)

Why does English say “eleven” and “twelve” instead of *oneteen and *twoteen? 🧵 1/9

four. different. ampersands. !!!! & they all illustrate the origin of the ampersand in the ligature of the latin conjunction “et” (“and”). 222050 • @folger.edu

Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

#oer #medievalsky #chaucer #oa Plese repost: "THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES, a free, scholar-produced resource for teaching and studying *The Canterbury Tales* at the University Level is at a NEW address: opencanterburytales dot lsusites dot org" opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

@gizem-karaali.bsky.social Happy birthday, dear Gizem! 🥳

The cardinals are dying https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/the-cardinals-are-dying-1962

Spotted in Logan Circle

You're seeing a hypothesis being tested: Terry Hunt & Carl Lipo (anthropology faculty at U of Hawai'i) investigated oral legends that Easter Island Moai statues "walked" from the quarry to their locations by the sea, where they stare into the island, signifying the spirit of ancestors & leaders.

I'm giving a talk tomorrow (March 27) at the Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium at Albion College on "On some infinite games". You can see the kind of minimalist slides on my site (andrescaicedo.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/albion-slides-games.pdf).

After 12 years of work, BDP Christopher Cannon and James Simpson, published The Oxford Chaucer. Cannon discusses the challenges associated with the book, including how to reconcile the varying texts across different handwritten manuscripts. hub.jhu.edu/2025/01/23/c...

I was asked to write a short, somewhat expository, note for an internal publication of the Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá. Here it is: arxiv.org/abs/2503.15381

Shamelessly stolen from Tumblr

@thiajo.bsky.social 👋 Welcome.

Is there something like the amsart documentclass, but for texts in Spanish? Any suggestions would be appreciated. (Thanks.)

And n(n+1) is even because it is 2(1+2+...+n).

Sorry to hear that Paul Benacerraf has died. I never got to meet him, but he managed to set much of the agenda of the philosophy of mathematics for decades with just a handful of papers.

In the spirit of “we’ll tell scary ghost stories” here’s a roundup of some Christmas monsters.

Skolem's paradox in verse* *in Polish. By Piotr Pikul, Wiadomości Matematyczne, 57 (2023) 69-79.

You might consider this puppet show by Jim Henson about the dangers of jazz and chaos as you proceed.

Look what just showed up!

I have strong feelings on the range of emotions portrayed for men in *Beowulf*. So when I wrote a poem, I leaned heavily on Hrothgar's dignity in grief, and the gentle emotions in Beowulf's elegy. amgalant.com/beowulf-poem/

Mathematicians, MathSciNet is hiring a PDEs editor: www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/25... Want a weird chill research job? Have a friend who loves PDEs but hates grading? Send them our way!

Right. The twelfth-century werewolf renaissance. A thread 🧵 This was originally posted to Twitter in May 2023. I'm re-posting it here more or less verbatim so that it can reach a new audience and endure after the original is deleted. I'll pop a link at the end to the archived one on my blog too.

It's not important in the scheme of things, but I've been really happy that we've welcomed several new contributors to topology.pi-base.org in recent days. Do you like topology? Do you want to develop tech skills useful in the workforce, or to help your students develop those skills? Come join us!

Mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815. 🧪 🎃 The fools at The Academy all said he was mad, but in 1872 he announced that he had succeeded in creating a ~monster~. 🧵 Image: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

who would like a slice of my venn piagram

Hey guys, guess what? I have a story out! “A Horde of Infinite Meaning” is about a grieving linguist who rediscovers the magic in her work, and you can now read it for free ($0) in Swords & Sorcery Magazine!

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

So, a few years ago, I had a house guest who forgot his toothpaste, and asked if he could borrow mine. Like a normal person, I said "of course", and thought nothing more of it...

Great question! I'll do my best to answer it without getting too far into the weeds, but the short answer is that Malory used mainly French sources, fleshed out with some English ones.

Let's talk about Le Morte Darthur! In particular, let's talk about the book itself!

Tomorrow. mathcs.albion.edu/calendar.php...

FRACTAL July 23rd 2006. When a transport ship capsized, an unidentified liquid leaked into the ocean. It formed a perfect Mandelbrot’s fractal pattern. In the following months, strange fish were reported in the area. Little did we know, this was only the beginning. (🧵)

Survey question: do you remember the first time you saw mathematical set notation, such as {1,2,3} or symbols for union or intersection? If so, approximately how old were you?

I'm creating a list of logicians, mathematicians, and computer scientists here at Bluesky. If you want to contribute, please let me know! Estou criando uma lista de lógicos, matemáticos e cientistas da computação aqui na Bluesky. Se você quiser contribuir, me avise por favor! (1 / n)

Still the best meme.

A thread about some of my favorite books: 0. Logic and Structure. Dirk van Dalen.