From a search in this journal for "Chapter 11" —
Inner structure —
The above three images share the same
vector-space structure —
| 0 | c | d | c + d |
| a | a + c | a + d | a + c + d |
| b | b + c | b + d | b + c + d |
|
a + b |
a + b + c |
a + b + d |
a + b + |
(This vector-space a b c d diagram is from
Chapter 11 of Sphere Packings, Lattices
and Groups , by John Horton Conway and
N. J. A. Sloane, first published by Springer
in 1988.)
Where's Y?
"Stencils" from a 1959 paper by Golomb —
These 15 figures also represent the 15 points of a finite geometry
(Cullinane diamond theorem, February 1979).
This journal on Beltane (May 1), 2016 —
For some background, see Edmonton in this journal.
From the Edmonton professor, in the November AMS Notices —
See also Stillwell in this journal.
* Sissy Spacek (1976). Some will prefer a more recent version.
The prominent role played by the date "May 19" in a New Yorker piece
from Oct. 7 — "Terry Bisson's History of the Future" . . .
. . . suggests a review of "May 19 Gestalt" in this journal
and posts so tagged.
The title is from a recent poet's obituary.
Some will prefer other sorts of position …
From a search for "Audrey Grace nude" …
Midrash for Ben Stiller —
Click the above quotation for
other remarks from 2018-05-25.
* See Babes in Tweeland (Oct. 3). I prefer other sorts of religious gatherings.
Related material —
And then there is Goddard College . . .
"Seeing the potential in an idea is everything."
— https://www.goddard.edu/person/darrah-cloud/
" Cloud’s father once asked her why he was paying tuition
if she was working at Goddard for free. Her reply?
'I can’t tell you — all I know is I can drive an ambulance now.' ”
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Robert Stone " 'That old Jew gave me this here.' Egan looked at the diamond. 'I ain't giving this to you, understand? The old man gave it to me for my boy. It's worth a whole lot of money– you can tell that just by looking– but it means something, I think. It's got a meaning, like.' 'Let's see,' Egan said, 'what would it mean?' He took hold of Pablo's hand cupping the stone and held his own hand under it. '"The jewel is in the lotus," perhaps that's what it means. The eternal in the temporal. The Boddhisattva declining nirvana out of compassion. Contemplating the ignorance of you and me, eh? That's a metaphor of our Buddhist friends.' Pablo's eyes glazed over. 'Holy shit,' he said. 'Santa Maria.' He stared at the diamond in his palm with passion. 'Hey,' he said to the priest, 'diamonds are forever! You heard of that, right? That means something, don't it?'
'I have heard it,' Egan said. 'Perhaps it has a religious meaning.' "
"We symbolize logical necessity — Keith Allen Korcz |
. . . versus Elegance (a post from Augustine's Day 2003).
See "Cube Space" + Lovasz.
This search was suggested by . . .
The conclusion of Solomon Golomb's
"Rubik's Cube and Quarks,"
American Scientist , May-June 1982 —
This new URL will forward to http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Solomon+Cube.
For a different sort of Lightbox, more closely associated with
the number 13, see instances in this journal of . . .
(Adapted from Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Eleventh Edition (1911), Crystallography .)
"Before time began . . . ." — Optimus Prime
The conclusion of a Hungarian political figure's obituary in
tonight's online New York Times, written by Clay Risen —
"A quietly religious man, he spent his last years translating
works dealing with Roman Catholic canon law."
This journal on the Hungarian's date of death, October 8,
a Sunday, dealt in part with the submission to Wikipedia of
the following brief article . . . and its prompt rejection.
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The Cullinane diamond theorem is a theorem
The theorem also explains symmetry properties of the Reference
1. Cullinane diamond theorem at |
Some quotations I prefer to Catholic canon law —
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Ludwig Wittgenstein,
97. Thought is surrounded by a halo. * See the post Wittgenstein's Diamond. Related language in Łukasiewicz (1937)—
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See as well Diamond Theory in 1937.
"Romy and Michele's High School Reunion opens with an aerial shot
of Venice Beach, CA, zooming (east) into the girls' apartment window."
Other views —
"Fake it until you make it." — AA saying.
Financial Times today informs us that the new 48-page novel by
Nobel Lit Prize winner Jon Fosse, with title translated as
"A Shining," will be published not on Halloween, as previously
reported here, but instead on the next day, All Hallows. Good.
The novel's original title, in Norwegian, is Kvitleik .
The Web indicates that this means "White Game."
See as well yesterday's post "Void Game." A relevant quote —
"By groping toward the light we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is around us."
— Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy ,
Random House, 1973, page 118
Fans of the phrase "God-shaped hole" may have some opinions
about what should fill the inner 3×3 void of the above 5×5 array.
Update of 3:53 pm ET — The White Paper —
The Source —
The Atlantic . . . Technology:
Washington and Beijing have been locked in a conflict
over AI development. Now a new battle line is being drawn.
By Karen Hao. October 11, 2023, 9:13 AM ET
Click or tap to enlarge.
A nihilist altarpiece, from other posts tagged "Ghent Links" —
Some will prefer the "Better to light one candle" philosophy and . . .
Candle from Sense8, Season 1, Episode 1: “Limbic Resonance” —
Related reading —
A fact check on the release date of the Winehouse "Back to Black" album
yields two possible correct dates in October 2006. See this journal on those
dates —
For those less than charmed by the Baudelaires of
A Series of Unfortunate Events . . .
"Modern society, once it is somewhat more settled . . .
will also have its calm, its corners of cool mystery . . . ."
Detective Cruz enters Planck's Constant Café in "The Big Bang."
More later.
Update of 6:06 PM ET — An image from a post of Oct. 12, 2008 —
Moulin Bleu
Kaleidoscope turning…
Shifting pattern
within unalterable structure…
— Roger Zelazny, Eye of Cat
Metaphysics for the damned —
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From the 1979 film "A Little Romance" —
Reading something you It's just a book. I used to read those too. What is it?
An Introduction to Metaphysics,
School has changed I'm just reading it for fun.
Fun?
Most people think anyone
I don't. But I have to admit
Heidegger.
Heidegger isn't all that hard.
Like, "Why is there something |
… And for the not so damned —
The Source —
https://www.bard.edu/library/arendt/pdfs/
Heidegger-EinfuhrungMetaphysik.pdf
The actress playing the teen reading Heidegger in the 1979 film
"A Little Romance" was Diane Lane. The film was set in Venice.
Later in Venice . . .
Ben Affleck and Diane Lane at the 2006 Venice Film Festival
premiere of "Hollywoodland" :
An antidote to Hollywoodland . . .
The classic novel Under the Volcano :
"Here was finality indeed, and cleavage!"
nytimes.com/2023/10/08/arts/design/claude-cormier-dead.html
"Mr. Cormier, an avant-garde Canadian landscape architect
who created playfully subversive and much loved public spaces,
died on Sept. 15 at his home in Montreal. He was 63."
Somewhat less playful and subversive — This journal on Sept. 15 —
"All work and no play . . ."
Sunday, November 15, 2015
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See as well "Livingstone" in this journal.
The title is an annotation from page 299 of Finnegans Wake.
The complete phrase is …
Canine Venus
sublimated to
Aulidic
Aphrodite.
From Friday's "Introduction to Multispeech" —
"Students of Multispeech must become familiar with the
Entendre family — Single, Double, Triple, and so forth."
From Finnegans Wake —
The cocktail remarks in yesterday's New York Times
suggest a song lyric . . .
"There's plenty of dives to be something you're not . . . ."
— Roseanne Cash, Seven-Year Ache.
From this date, October 7th, seven years ago —
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The Paz quote below is from the last chapter
Update of Saturday, October 8, seven years ago: I do not recommend taking very seriously the work of Latin American leftists (or American academics) who like to use the word "dialectic." A related phrase does, however, have a certain mystic or poetic charm, as pointed out by Wikipedia —
"Unity of opposites is the central category of dialectics, |
A graphic companion to the "unity of opposites" notion —
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From Savage Logic— Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:24 PM The Origin of Change
A note on the figure
"Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
— Wallace Stevens, |
Ekphrasis —
Students of Multispeech must become familiar with the
Entendre family — Single, Double, Triple, and so forth.
A New York Times piece by Clay Risen today —
This suggests an example based on the above image:
A Cock Tale …
Starring Clay Risen, with
Ann Harlow as Hairy Potter.
Shining-related material from my own life —
Other material related to my own life, also on the date
November 25, 2009, but less personal —
From the current version —
Some background —
See also https://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Dirac+skew+anticommuting.
For fans of a different sort of space . . .
See also the Wikipedia article on Bloom.
See also the previous post.
See as well "The Thing and I."
"You can ponder perpetual motion
Fix your mind on a crystal day
Always time for a good conversation
There's an ear for what you say"
— "Up Around the Bend" lyrics
Detail from a post of October 2 —
Color scheme at Replit perhaps influenced by the recent film "Barbie" —
The inscape in the previous post suggests a review of
work by the Belgian mathematician Koen Thas on what
might be called the "quantum tesseract theorem."
The New Yorker yesterday on a film director —
"Lest viewers become even briefly comfortable with
the enchantments of his staging and of his actors’
performances, Anderson jolts them alert with
ever more audacious contrivances."
"As you can see, we've had our eye on you
for some time now, Mr. Anderson."
The Replit code development environment featured
in today's previous post has hosted, for some time now,
an embodiment of the design cube from earlier posts —
From a search in this journal for "Schmeikal" —
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Schmeikal Bio https://keplerspaceinstitute.com/project/volume-9-number-1/ [Spring 2020] [Page 7] — Introduction by the Editors We have been blessed throughout the publication history of the Journal of Space Philosophy, beginning in 2012, with the volunteer service of 42 professionals in the Space community to act as reviewers and consultants to our authors. They have been listed in the final article of each published issue. We are proud to announce with this letter the addition of our latest Senior Consultant, Dr. Bernd Anton Schmeikal. [Image of Dr. Schmeikal] This Letter to the Editor is about Dr. Schmeikal. Bernd Anton Schmeikal, born May 15, 1946, is a retired freelancer in research and development, qualified in Sociology with a treatise about cultural time reversal. He is a real maverick, still believing that social life can be based on openness and honesty. As a PhD philosopher from Vienna, with a typical mathematical physics background, he entered the Trace Analysis Group of the UA1 Experiment at CERN, under the leadership of Walter Thirring, in 1965. This was in the foundation phase of the Institute for High Energy Physics (HEPhy) at the Austrian Academy of Science. He has always been busy solving fundamental problems concerning the unity of matter and space-time, the origin of the HEPhy standard model, and the phenomenology of relativistic quantum mechanics. In the Sociology Department of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS Vienna), he helped James Samuel Coleman to conceive his mathematics of collective action as a cybernetic system, and he gave the process of internalization of 7 ………………. End of page 7 [Page 8] — Journal of Space Philosophy 9, No. 1 (Spring 2020) collective values an exact shape. He implemented many transdisciplinary research projects for governmental and non-governmental organizations, universities, and non-university institutions, and several times he introduced new views and methods. He founded an international work stream that, for the first time, worked under the name of the Biofield Laboratory (BILAB). Although close to fringe science and electromedicine, the work of BILAB had a considerable similarity to the Biological Computer Laboratory run earlier by Heinz von Foerster. Lately, he has applied Foerster’s idea of a universal relevance of hyperbolic distributions (Zipf’s law) in social science to the labor market. This signifies a last contribution to the research program of the Wiener Institute for Social Science Documentation and Methodology (WISDOM) under the sponsorship of the Austrian Federal Presidential Candidate Rudolf Hundstorfer. Dr. Schmeikal is convinced that a unity of science and culture can be achieved, but that this demands more than one Einstein. Consequently, he sought cooperation with Louis Kauffman and Joel Isaacson. Dr. Bernd Schmeikal’s review and evaluation of Joel Isaacson and Louis Kauffman’s Recursive Distinctioning (aka “Nature’s Cosmic Intelligence”) research and papers, published in the first issue of the JSP, Fall 2012, again in the Special JSP Issue on Recursive Distinctioning, Spring 2016, and again in the Fall 2017 issue, are very valuable contributions to this forefront science investigation of Nature’s Cosmic Intelligence. Dr. Schmeikal, University of Vienna Professor in mathematics, linguistics, and physics is one of the world’s distinguished scholars for this special field of universe autonomous intelligence. He begins his abstract with the statement: “This paper investigates a universal creative system,” and ends it with “That is to say, our universe may be a representation of Isaacson’s system, and entertainingly, with his US Patent specification 4,286,330, 1981, it seems he has patented creation.” Reports on the four annual KSI-sponsored Conferences for Recursive Distinctioning, to date, can be found in JSP publications. Dr. Schmeikal’s latest book publication is Nuclear Time Travel and the Alien Mind, published by Nova Science Publishers, New York. In 119 pages, Dr. Schmeikal tells the historic story of unidentified objects, and the knowns and unknowns of advanced space-time warping time-travel technology. He includes a September 24, 1947 top secret letter of President Harry Truman to Secretary of Defense Forrestal, authorizing research into these matters, but confining ultimate disposition to be solely under the Office of the President. Dr. Schmeikal’s discussions of the impacts of the extraterrestrial mind on past Earth events give a research variable as we attempt to understand and predict future outcomes of attempts at improving humanity’s prospects (see Yehezkel Dror, JSP, Summer 2015 and Kepler Space Institute, book publication, 2019) as we humans proceed with exploring, developing and building human Space settlements. Bob Krone and Gordon Arthur Founding and Current Editors, Journal of Space Philosophy April 15, 2020 8 …………………………… [End of page 8] |
"Pint comes from the Old French word pinte and perhaps ultimately
from Vulgar Latin pincta meaning 'painted,' for marks painted on
the side of a container to show capacity.*
* "Pint," Merriam-Webster.com. 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2013."
"Ride a painted pony . . ." — Play It as It Lays song
"I love you Mony Mony . . . ." — Another song
Related religious remarks from this journal on Augustine's Day 2023:
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"We stopped at the Trocadero and there was hardly anyone there. We had Lanson 1926. 'Drink up, sweet. You gotta go some. How I love music. Frère Jacques, Cuernavaca, ach du lieber August. All languages. A walking Berlitz. Berlitz sounds like you with that champagne, my sweet, or how you're gonna sound.'" — John O'Hara, Hope of Heaven, Chapter 11, 1938 "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." "Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the
PARIS, — James Joyce, conclusion of Finnegans Wake |
"As McCarthy peers through the screen, or veil, of technological modernity
to reveal the underlying symbolic structures of human experience,
The Making of Incarnation weaves a set of stories one inside the other,
rings within rings, a perpetual motion machine."
— Amazon.com description of a novel published on All Souls' Day
(Dia de los Muertos), 2021.
See also the underlying symbolic structures of Boolean functions . . .
as discussed, for instance, on Sept. 23 at medium.com —
On the recent Peacock series "Mrs. Davis" —
"The algorithm is known as Mrs. Davis … and is
the all-seeing, all-knowing, not-quite-all-merciful
manifestation of artificial intelligence to whom
humanity has plighted its troth in this eight-part
manifestation of real intelligence from creators
Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof."
— John Anderson in The Wall Street Journal ,
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
For The Algorithm , see last evening's Michaelmas post and . . .
For a different Mrs. Davis, see . . .
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From Tom McCarthy's review yesterday of The Maniac , a novel about 1940s social life at Los Alamos — "The mathematician Martin Davis’s wife, Lydia, storms out of a Trinity dinner party, condemning the men’s failure to fully take on board the consequences of their atom splitting. Besides sharing her name with our own age’s great translator of Blanchot and Proust, this Lydia Davis is a textile artist — a hanging detail that points back toward the novel’s many looms and weavings. For the Greeks, the fates spinning the threads of human lives were female (as Conrad knew, recasting them as Belgian secretaries in 'Heart of Darkness'). So was Theseus’ wool-ball navigator, Ariadne. And so, too, was the Ithacan ur-weaver Penelope, whose perpetual making and unraveling of her tapestry beat Gödel to an incompleteness theory by thousands of years. 'Text,' by the way, means something woven, from which we get 'textile.' It might just be that Penelope was not only testing her own version of the ontological limit, but also embedding it — in absent form, a hole — within the weft and warp of what we would eventually call the novel." |
Martin Davis reportedly died this year on New Year's Day.
This journal on that date —
Members of the Church of Synchronology may investigate
in this journal the above Harold Budd dates —
Sept. 27, 2020 and April 18, 2018.
Tom McCarthy today on a new novel about von Neumann at Los Alamos:
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"Beyond its mid-20th-century viewfinder, though, it quickly becomes clear that what The Maniac is really trying to get a lock on is our current age of digital-informational mastery and subjection." "Amid — or, more aptly, beneath — the panoply of brilliant men in The Maniac , women function as bit players. At Los Alamos they’re even called 'computers,' since they carry out the secondary, workaday calculations that are then fed upward for male geniuses to work their magic on. But does von Neumann really deserve the title 'Father of Computers,' granted him here by his first wife, Mariette Kovesi? Doesn’t Ada Lovelace have a prior claim as their mother?" |
"As McCarthy peers through the screen, or veil,
of technological modernity to reveal the underlying
symbolic structures of human experience,
The Making of Incarnation weaves a set of stories
one inside the other, rings within rings, a perpetual
motion machine." — Amazon.com description
of a novel published on All Souls' Day (Dia de los
Muertos), 2021.
The McCarthy novel is mentioned in The New York Times today —
For a simpler perpetual motion machine, see T. S. Eliot's "Chinese jar."
Update at 11:34 am ET Sept. 29, 2023 —
See too remarks in this journal on the above metadata date, 12/17/2020.
A quote included there:
"The way I work is that
I focus entirely on a small thing
and try to milk that for all it's worth,
to find everything in it
that makes musical sense."
— A composer who reportedly died in December 2017
in Arcadia, California.
If you liked this one, see more in Blanche Knott's Truly Tasteless Jokes.
Brian Harley in Mate in Two Moves:
“It is quite true that variation play is, in ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred, the soul of a problem, or (to put it more
materially) the main course of the solver’s banquet, but
the Key is the cocktail that begins the proceedings, and
if it fails in piquancy the following dinner is not so
satisfactory as it should be.”
(London, Bell & Sons. First edition, 1931.)
Related art from the 9/25 Log24 post Harvardwood Suggests —
The musical accompaniment to the TikTok cock is by Village People.
Related news from yesterday —
The Village Voice founder reportedly died on Wednesday, September 27, 2023.
"The nightingale tells his fairy tale" — Song lyric, "Stardust"
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Michael Gambon, Celebrated
NYT > Obituaries by Benedict Nightingale /
The actor’s family said he had died peacefully
M. S. Swaminathan, Scientist Who Helped
NYT > Obituaries by Keith Schneider /
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The drama game …
"… in 2005, he finally achieved his ambition to play Falstaff
in Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 at the National Theatre."
The art game …
“ ’A babbled of green fields”
— Shakespeare on the death of Falstaff
Art relevant to the pair of obituaries above —
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Raphael+Table.
"Should we arbitrate life and death
at a round table or a square one?"
See the previous post and London Bondage.
Return of the well-dressed man with a beard —
Click screenshot to enlarge.
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Tags: Ghent Links — m759 @ 4:07 PM
Related material: "Ducky" died, Circle Zen, Palmervision
Stephen King, Archimedes, and Daisy Buchanan —
"Birthday, death-day — what day is not both?" — Updike
The actor who played "Illya Kuryakin" reportedly died yesterday —
" David Keith McCallum Jr. was born on Sept. 19, 1933, into
a musical family in Glasgow. His father was the first violinist
for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London; his mother,
Dorothy Dorman, was a cellist. He would later tell interviewers
that his Scotch Presbyterian upbringing had left him emotionally
circumscribed.
'We Scots, we tend to be awfully tight inside,' he told TV Guide
in 1965. 'It has hurt me as an actor to be so — so naturally restricted.' "
— Leslie Kaufman in The New York Times
This journal on McCallum's 90th birthday — Sept. 19, 2023 —
"You take the high road and . . . ."
"William LeRoy Schneck, 88, of 307 W. Fifth Ave., Warren, PA,
died on January 3, 2008. . . .
LeRoy was named Man of the Century in 2000 by the
Warren County Chamber of Commerce."
"Time it goes so fast."
— "Manic Monday"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anthropic —
"Questions abound about how the various proposals intersect with
anthropic reasoning and the infamous multiverse idea."
— Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 16 June 2019
A more recent, and notable, use of "anthropic" :
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/
amazon-to-invest-up-to-4-billion-in-ai-startup-anthropic/ —
"As part of the investment agreement, Anthropic will use
Amazon’s cloud giant AWS as a primary cloud provider for
mission-critical workloads . . . ."
The cloud giant appeared here recently :
This journal on the above color-field date . . .
* I prefer the art-history term "color field"
to the pandering term "psychedelic."
This post was prompted by the recent removal of a reference to
the theorem on the Wikipedia "Diamond theorem" disambiguation
page. The reference, which has been there since 2015, was removed
because it linked to an external source (Encyclopedia of Mathematics)
instead of to a Wikipedia article.
For anyone who might be interested in creating a Wikipedia article on
my work, here are some facts that might be reformatted for that website . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
User:Cullinane/sandbox —
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Cullinane diamond theorem The theorem uses finite geometry to explain some symmetry properties of some simple graphic designs, like those found in quilts, that are constructed from chevrons or diamonds. The theorem was first discovered by Steven H. Cullinane in 1975 and was published in 1977 in Computer Graphics and Art. The theorem was also published as an abstract in 1979 in Notices of the American Mathematical Society. The symmetry properties described by the theorem are related to those of the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis. The theorem is described in detail in the Encyclopedia of Mathematics article "Cullinane diamond theorem." References Steven H. Cullinane, "Diamond theory," Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 1977, pages 5-7. _________, Abstract 79T-A37, "Symmetry invariance in a diamond ring," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, February 1979, pages A-193, 194. _________, "Cullinane diamond theorem," Encyclopedia of Mathematics. R. T. Curtis, A new combinatorial approach to M24, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1976, Vol. 79, Issue 1, pages 24-42. |
For the purpose of defining figurate geometry , a figurate space might be
loosely described as any space consisting of finitely many congruent figures —
subsets of Euclidean space such as points, line segments, squares,
triangles, hexagons, cubes, etc., — that are permuted by some finite group
acting upon them.
Thus each of the five Platonic solids constructed at the end of Euclid's Elements
is itself a figurate space, considered as a collection of figures — vertices, edges,
faces — seen in the nineteenth century as acted upon by a group of symmetries .
More recently, the 4×6 array of points (or, equivalently, square cells) in the Miracle
Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis is also a figurate space . The relevant group of
symmetries is the large Mathieu group M24 . That group may be viewed as acting
on various subsets of a 24-set… for instance, the 759 octads that are analogous
to the faces of a Platonic solid. The geometry of the 4×6 array was shown by
Curtis to be very helpful in describing these 759 octads.
The Mathematical Intelligencer Vol. 10, Issue 1, page 3 (Dec. 1988) . . .
http://www.log24.com/noindex-pdf/
Cullinane-letter-Artes_Liberales-Intelligencer.pdf —
Not a snowflake . . .
Related material . . . "Omnibus ex Nihilo."
And, for the Church of Synchronology —
Log24 on the above Instagram date:
September 8, 2022 — Chevron Variations.
The above title for a new approach to finite geometry
was suggested by the old phrase "figurate numbers."
See other posts in this journal now tagged Figurate Geometry.
Update of 10 AM ET on Sept. 19, 2023 —
Related material from social media:
Update of 10:30 AM ET Sept. 19 —
A related topic from figurate geometry:
Sarah Larson in The New Yorker yesterday —
"Having revealed itself, the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC),
designed by Joshua Ramus and his firm, REX, retains an air of mystery:
it’s a giant marble-sheathed cube, beige and opaque by day and warmly
aglow by night, fronted by a two-story staircase that evokes the approach
to a Mayan temple or the gangway to an alien spacecraft. What’s inside?"
Always an interesting question . . .
From "Made for Love" (2021) — Lyle Herringbone:
See as well yesterday's post
The figure above summarizes a new way of looking at
so-called "figurate numbers." The old way goes back
at least to the time of Pythagoras.
A more explicit presentation —
"Time is a weapon, it's cold and it's cruel"
— Lyrics: Max D. Barnes. Singer: Ray Price.
The New York Times in September 1949 —
CANNES, France, Sept. 17 (AP) — A. British-made film
with two American stars won the Grand Prize of the
Cannes Film Festival, judges announced today.
The film was "The Third Man," starring Joseph Cotten,
Valli, Orson Welles and Siegfried Breuer.
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From posts tagged Field Theology —
Illustration of the Japanese (and Chinese) character for "field"—
From an Instagram ad today —
See also this journal on the above April 27, 2016,
art date: "Local and Global."
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From "Knight to Move," by Fritz Leiber "… You were talking about basic games. Well, the chessboard is clearly a spider’s web with crisscross strands—in Go you even put the pieces on the intersections. The object of the game is to hunt down and immobilize the enemy King, just as a spider paralyzes its victim and sometimes wraps it in its silk. But here’s the clincher: the Knight, the piece most characteristic of chess, has exactly eight crooked moves when it stands in the clear—the number of a spider’s crooked legs, and eyes too! This suggests that all chess-playing planets are Spider-infiltrated from way back. It also suggests that all the chessplayers here for the tournament are Spiders—your shock battalion to take over 61 Cygni 5.” Colonel von Hohenwald sighed. “I was afraid you’d catch on, dear,” he said softly. “Now you’ve signed your abduction warrant at the very least. You may still be able to warn your HQ, but before they can come to your aid, this planet will be in our hands.” He frowned. “But why did you spill this to me, Erica? If you had played dumb—” “I spilled it to you,” she said, “because I wanted you to know that your plot’s been blown––and that my side has already taken countermeasures! We’ve made a crooked Knight’s move too. Has the significance of track games never occurred to you, Colonel? The one-dimensional track, sinuously turning, obviously symbolizes the snake. The pieces are the little bugs and animals the snake has swallowed. As for the dice, well, one of the throws is called Snake Eyes. So be assured that all the k’ta’hra players here are Snakes, ready to counter any Spider grab at 61 Cygni 5.” The Colonel’s mouth almost gaped. |
"Eureka!"
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