#metric

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. ↗

— Martin Gardner

#between #difference #geometrical #geometry #nothing

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#around #complicated #franklin #franklin roosevelt #geometric

I'm not familiar with the metric system. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#i #metric #system

This book is an essay in what is derogatorily called "literary economics," as opposed to mathematical economics, econometrics, or (embracing them both) the "new economic history." A man does what he can, and in the more elegant - one is tempted to say "fancier" - techniques I am, as one who received his formation in the 1930s, untutored. A colleague has offered to provide a mathematical model to decorate the work. It might be useful to some readers, but not to me. Catastrophe mathematics, dealing with such events as falling off a height, is a new branch of the discipline, I am told, which has yet to demonstrate its rigor or usefulness. I had better wait. Econometricians among my friends tell me that rare events such as panics cannot be dealt with by the normal techniques of regression, but have to be introduced exogenously as "dummy variables." The real choice open to me was whether to follow relatively simple statistical procedures, with an abundance of charts and tables, or not. In the event, I decided against it. For those who yearn for numbers, standard series on bank reserves, foreign trade, commodity prices, money supply, security prices, rate of interest, and the like are fairly readily available in the historical statistics. ↗

— Charles P. Kindleberger

#economics #finance #statistics #money

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#concrete #cyclic #each #entire #form

The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#aged #appearance #branches #came #evidently

This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#chemical #chemical reactions #diagrams #distinct #drawing

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity. ↗

— Donald Judd

#anything #art #call #else #geometric

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense. ↗

— Donald Judd

#certainly #connected #geometric #old #sense

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#form #geometric #i #kind #logic