The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4

not necessarily disputing any of his conclusions, but I find his style of argument frustratingly slippery, always generalizing broadly from weak evidence

> Our term ‘the state’ only came into common usage in the late sixteenth century, when it was coined by a French lawyer named Jean Bodin, who also wrote, among many other things, an influential treatise on witchcraft, werewolves and the history of sorcerers. (He is further remembered today for his profound hatred of women.)

Damn.

> Now to return to that strange and crude mysticism, which, as I have said above, took hold of Empress Alexandra and with which she infected her august spouse. In the course of my stay in Paris in 1903 I had long talks with Baron Alphonse, the septuagenarian head of the Rothschild house. Our conversation mostly revolved around the preoccupation with the occult and the mystic which had taken root at the Russian Court, this being, in the Baron's opinion, a bad symptom. He repeatedly returned to this subject. History shows, he pointed out, that great events, especially of an internal nature, were always and everywhere preceded by the prevalence of a bizarre mysticism at the court of the ruler.

The Memoirs of Count Witte

> Whoever has had the opportunity of studying the concealed feelings of persons by means of psychoanalysis can also tell something new con­cerning the quality of unconscious motives, which express themselves in superstition. Nervous persons afflicted with compulsive thinking and compulsive states, who are often very intelligent, show very plainly that superstition originates from repressed hostile and cruel impulses. The greater part of superstition signifies fear of impending evil, and he who has frequently wished evil to others, but because of a good bringing-up has repressed the same into the unconscious, will be particularly apt to expect punishment for such unconscious evil in the form of a mis­fortune threatening him from without.

Sigmund Freud, Premonitions and Chance

https://imgur.com/a/gHLhHmy

Have a look at hyperbolic crochet as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daina_Taimi%C5%86a

https://pi.math.cornell.edu/~dtaimina/crochet/hplane.htm

https://www.routledge.com/Crocheting-Adventures-with-Hyperbo...

What are the ramifications?

99, according to Wikipedia, but yeah

She has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Birman

second chance pool messes up timestamps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309