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Beauty will save the world

I am Raian. I am fond of the world of ideas and the experience of Beauty. What follows are short notes on arguments, proofs, music and films, kept less as publication than as a conversation with myself.

Loci communes A commonplace book: notes kept under subject headings, the newest first.

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Forthcoming.

Mathesis Mathematics, done for the pleasure of it.

Libri Books, rated as I finish them; the longer thoughts get a post of their own.

Lately read · the whole shelf

  • Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky ★★★★★
  • A Mathematician's Apology, G. H. Hardy ★★★½
  • A Mathematician's Lament, Paul Lockhart ★★★★

Musica Records, mostly, rated as I listen; the ones worth more than a line get a post.

Lately listened · the whole log

  1. Saxophone Colossus Sonny Rollins ★★★★
  2. Lágrimas negras Bebo Valdés & Diego El Cigala ★★★★
  3. Cavallaro With That Latin Beat Carmen Cavallaro ★★★★
  4. Afro Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra ★★★★★
  5. Bocanada Gustavo Cerati ★★★★½
  6. Complete Nocturnes John Field & Alice Sara Ott ★★★★★

Cinema Films. Posters below come from my Letterboxd diary.

Lately watched · the full diary

  1. La La Land ★★★
  2. A Clockwork Orange ★★★★½ ♥
  3. The Skin I Live In ★★★★★ ♥
  4. Fight Club ★★★★★ ♥
  5. Amadeus ★★★★½ ♥
  6. Synecdoche, New York ★★★★½ ♥

Varia Ideas that belong to no single heading.