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thenewgreen  ·  3701 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My Naked Geometry talk at MoMath

Thank you for that!

    In the parlance of jazz, a square was a person who failed to appreciate the medium, more broadly someone who was out of date or out of touch, hence the saying "be there or be square". In the counterculture movements that started in the 1940s and took momentum in the 1960s a "square" referred to someone who clung to repressive, traditional, stereotypical, one-sided, or "in the box" ways of thinking.
mike, what shape would be "jazz?"