Polytropy

The Nesin Mathematics Village is my favorite place in Turkey. It lies outside the village of Şirince, in the hills above the modern town of Selçuk near the ancient Ionian city of Ephesus, in the province of İzmir, the modern Smyrna.

Here is a list (in reverse chronological order) of the articles of this blog in which I have written about the Nesin Mathematics Village. Perhaps I mention the Village only briefly, but sometimes the Village is the whole point of the article. I try to indicate which one is the case.

• Şirince January 2018
• What Philosophy Is (concerning a visit of May 2015)
• Romance (mention of the romance of travelling there in January 2016)
• The Private, Unskilled One (about Elif Batuman’s Idiot, read in the Village, May 2017)
• Edirne (brief mention of the busses we take to get to the Village)
• Writing, Typography, and Nature (written in the Village, January 2017)
• Şirince January 2017
• Thales of Miletus (mentions doing research, in July and September, 2016, in the Village)
• How to Learn about People (recalls visiting the Village, and the Elgiz Museum before that, in January 2016)
• All You Need Is Love (ideas about education, going back to May 2015 in the Village)
• Thinking & Feeling (brief mention of books carried to the Village)
• War Continues (about a research group in July, 2016, in the Village)
• Life in Wartime (heading off to the Village by bus after a terror attack on the airport in Istanbul, June 2016)
• Surgery & Recovery (brief mention of hoping to have this done before going to the Village in July 2016)
• Free Sevan Nişanyan (who built the Village in the first place)
• Nesin Matematik Köyü, Ocak (January) 2016
• Thoreau by the Aegean (mentioning nature in the Village)
• Teos (visited before the Village, May 2015)
• Liberation (mentioning the idea that the Village should be supported for encouraging the cultivation of oneself)
• Bosphorus Sky (mentioning Sevan Nişanyan as a contributor to the Rough Guide to Turkey, and the geography of the Village)
• The Parabola (with a photograph of Ionic columns at Priene, visited in 2008 during a stay at the Village)
• Şirince 2014

In case I forget to update this page, the following list, in chronological order, of my articles in the category of the Nesin Mathematics Village, is generated by WordPress. (The upper limit of how many articles to list is currently set at 30.)

1. Şirince 2014 (7/19/2014)
2. The Parabola (10/8/2014)
3. Bosphorus Sky (12/19/2014)
4. Teos (5/19/2015)
5. Thoreau by the Aegean (8/29/2015)
6. Nesin Matematik Köyü, Ocak (January) 2016 (1/26/2016)
7. Free Sevan Nişanyan (4/8/2016)
8. Surgery & Recovery (6/13/2016)
9. Life in Wartime (6/29/2016)
10. War Continues (7/16/2016)
11. Thinking & Feeling (7/20/2016)
12. All You Need Is Love (8/2/2016)
13. How to Learn about People (11/13/2016)
14. Thales of Miletus (12/24/2016)
15. Şirince January 2017 (1/17/2017)
16. Writing, Typography, and Nature (1/22/2017)
17. Edirne (5/6/2017)
18. The Private, Unskilled One (5/19/2017)
19. Romance (10/8/2017)
20. What Philosophy Is (11/21/2017)
21. Şirince January 2018 (2/4/2018)
22. The Tree of Life (2/12/2018)
23. On Knowing Ourselves (3/3/2018)
24. On Chapman’s Homer’s Iliad, Book X (8/28/2018)
25. Piety (3/14/2019)
26. Evolution of Reality (2/17/2020)