While leisurely biking in Paris the previous (grey) weekend, my wife and I stopped by the entrance to the Jardin des Plantes, in front of a (grey) renovated building of l’Institut de physique du globe, where we both attended (maths) lectures in the 1980’s. I had noticed the renovation years ago and in particular the red neon fractured line going over the faces of the building, but never considered it had a specific meaning.
In fact, the apparent random walk has nothing random as it reproduces the Ring of Fire, a Fuller projection of the continuum of volcanoes that ring the Pacific Ocean. (This sculpture was created by Angela Detanico et Rafael Lain.)
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ring of fire [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, University life with tags biking, Institut de Physique du Globe, Jardin des Plantes, jatp, Jussieu, neon, Pacific Rim, Paris, Ring of Fire, sculpture, Université de Paris, volcanoes on September 4, 2021 by xi'anthe pillar of shame [04 June 1989]
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags 04 June 1989, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Jens Galschiot, Pillar of Shame, sculpture, Tiananmen Square Massacre, University of Hong Kong, 國殤之柱 on June 4, 2021 by xi'an
Seventeen Seconds [40 years ago]
Posted in Books, Kids with tags A Forest, J.R. Tolkien, New Wave, Paris, Peter Jackson, Robert Smith, sculpture, The Cure, The Lord of the Rings on April 22, 2020 by xi'an
The Fry Building [Bristol maths]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags brise soleil screen, Bristol, Charles Francis Hansom, Fry Building, graded building, mathematics department, Peter Green, School of Mathematics, sculpture, University of Bristol, Voronoi tesselation, Wolfson Foundation on March 7, 2020 by xi'an
While I had heard of Bristol maths moving to the Fry Building for most of the years I visited the department, starting circa 1999, this last trip to Bristol was the opportunity for a first glimpse of the renovated building which has been done beautifully, making it the most amazing maths department I have ever visited. It is incredibly spacious and luminous (even in one of these rare rainy days when I visited), while certainly contributing to the cohesion and interactions of the whole department. And the choice of the Voronoi structure should not have come as a complete surprise (to me), given Peter Green’s famous contribution to their construction!
Ryū [jatp]
Posted in Statistics with tags dragon, Higashino Keigo, Japan, jatp, Kumano Kodō, Kumano-Hongu Taisha shrine, ryū, sculpture, Wakayama prefecture on October 20, 2019 by xi'an
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