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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Frequently Thought Together

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From Amazon.com today —

Related material — Tyson in this journal.

Update of 2:48 PM the same day —

For Brooke Gladstone untainted by the above questionable
associates, see a piece from May 18, 2011.

The Pinterest Directive …

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Continues.

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Diamond Bits

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Or:  Putting the Pinter in Pinterest

From "A Poem for Pinter"

Log24 on Oct. 13, 2005

The Guardian on Harold Pinter, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature:

"Earlier this year, he announced his decision to retire from playwriting in favour of poetry,"

Michael Muskal in today's Los Angeles Times:

"Pinter, 75, is known for his sparse and thin style as well as his etched characters whose crystal patter cuts through the mood like diamond drill bits."

Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise  (See Jan. 25):

"'That old Jew gave me this here.'  Egan looked at the diamond….  '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….'"

See as well an image in a link target from today's noon post

The Pinterest Directive

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Click image for some background.

Monday, May 29, 2017

Ordinary Evening in a Paper Town

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Click the above search for a larger version.

The American Sublime

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Line from "Vide," a post of June 8, 2014 —

Vide  Classical Geometry in Light of Galois Geometry.

Recall that vide  means different things in Latin and in French.

See also Stevens + "Vacant Space" in this journal.

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Freeze Frame

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In memory of John Severson, the founder of Surfer  magazine —

"Freeze-frame surfer, and as a live Hendrix 'E Z Rider' blares
over the soundtrack, the surfer lifts his arms and rises like Christ
into the sky."

Rolling Stone , August 5, 1971, on the film Rainbow Bridge

Severson reportedly died on Friday, May 26, 2017.

For a rather different sort of surfing, see this  journal on that date.

Bullshit Studies

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The previous post dealt with a symbol of an apparently
admirable "social development environment."

For a less admirable development environment, see a film
described in a July 2014 story from Film New Europe —

"Shooting started in Bucharest on 9 June 2014. . . ."

This  journal on 8-9 June 2014 —

Banner of a Strange Device

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Click image for further details.

Related material — Heaven Arising in this journal.

Saturday, May 27, 2017

Serious Songs

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Serious Synchronology

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The above image includes a July 9, 2014, file photo.

From this journal on that date

“Be serious, because
The stone may have contempt
For too-familiar hands”

— Adrienne Rich in “The Diamond Cutters” (1955)

Friday, May 26, 2017

Power Tools …

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… at the Church of Synchronology

See also Lyche in this journal on April 13.

Night at the Museum

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In memory of an author who reportedly 
died on Wednesday, May 24.

Confession in 'The Seventh Seal'

Day at the Museum

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From the 1994 film review linked to above —

Reality Bites – Peter Travers in Rolling Stone , Feb. 1994

"Life after college – the time between graduation and
finding a job that pays your rent without making you puke.
Panic time. By spinning something fresh out of something
familiar, Reality Bites  scores the first comedy knockout of
the new year. It also brings out the vibrant best in Winona
Ryder and Ethan Hawke as friends who resist being lovers,
makes a star of Janeane Garofalo as their tart-tongued
buddy and puts Ben Stiller on the map as a director." 

Taormina Test

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Mark Zuckerberg in a commencement speech
at Harvard yesterday —

"Movies and pop culture get this all wrong.
The idea of a single eureka moment
is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate
since we haven’t had ours. It prevents people
with seeds of good ideas from getting started.
Oh, you know what else movies get wrong about
innovation? No one writes math formulas on glass.
That’s not a thing."

The Thing from Taormina —

Taormina on symmetry-surfing

Headline Style at The New York Times

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Sounds like a job for Amy Adams.

Amy Adams at the Lancia Café in Taormina, Sicily, on June 15, 2013.
Adams was in Taormina for the Italian premiere of her Superman film.

Thursday, May 25, 2017

The Date

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The date in Urban Dictionary of an entry on the phrase
"Ultima Thule" is January 25, 2008.

See that date in this journal.

In the Bag

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Presidential Address of November 19, 1976

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Deep Problems in the Faculty Lounge

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The Story of Six Continues

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A post of March 22, 2017, was titled "The Story of Six."

Related material from that date —

"I meant… a larger map." — Number Six in "The Prisoner"

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Pursued by a Biplane

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The Galois Tesseract as a biplane —

Cary Grant in 'North by Northwest'

Match Book

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IMAGE- Roger O. Thornhill's monogrammed 'ROT' matchbook in 'North by Northwest'

Click image for related posts.

Logos Review

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From Balboa Press —

More than a pretty face designed to identify a product, a logo combines powerful elements super boosted with sophisticated branding techniques. Logos spark our purchasing choice and can affect our wellbeing.

Lovingly detailed, researched and honed to deliver a specific intention, a logo contains a unique dynamic that sidesteps our conscious mind. We might not know why we prefer one product over another but the logo, designed to connect the heart of the brand to our own hearts, plays a vital part in our decision to buy.

The power of symbols to sway us has been recognised throughout history. Found in caves and in Egyptian temples they are attributed with the strength to foretell and create the future, connect us with the divine and evoke emotions, from horror to ecstasy, at a glance.  The new symbols we imbue with these awesome powers are our favourite brand logos.

• Discover the unconscious effect of these modern symbols that thrust our most successful global corporations into the limelight and our lives.

• Learn to make informed choices about brands.

• Find out how a logo reflects the state of the brand and holds it to account.

The date of the above remarks on a logo change, March 24, 2016,
suggests a review of a Log24 post from that date —

In Memoriam

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"From 1962 to 1969 Mr. Moore was Simon Templar . . . ."

The New York Times  online today

A related post — "Intruders for Mira" (Sept. 28, 2015).

Monday, May 22, 2017

History of Mathematics

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See also Plücker in this  journal.

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Rota on Beauty

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Tiptoe through the tulips with Rota and Erickson:

Attempts have been made to string together beautiful mathematical results and to present them in books bearing such attractive titles as The One Hundred Most Beautiful Theorems of Mathematics. Such anthologies are seldom found on a mathematician’s bookshelf.

The beauty of a theorem is best observed when the theorem is presented as the crown jewel within the context of a theory.

— Gian-Carlo Rota in Indiscrete Thoughts

See also Martin Erickson in this journal . . . 

Saturday, May 20, 2017

Arrival

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"But the Work shall not be wholly lost:
For it will, as he believ’d, appear once more,
In a new & more perfect Edition,
Corrected and Amended
By the Author." — Benjamin Franklin

The Ludicrous Extreme

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From a review of the 2016 film "Arrival"

"A seemingly off-hand reference to Abbott and Costello
is our gateway. In a movie as generally humorless as Arrival,
the jokes mean something. Ironically, it is Donnelly, not Banks,
who initiates the joke, naming the verbally inexpressive
Heptapod aliens after the loquacious Classical Hollywood
comedians. The squid-like aliens communicate via those beautiful,
cryptic images. Those signs, when thoroughly comprehended,
open the perceiver to a nonlinear conception of time; this is
Sapir-Whorf taken to the ludicrous extreme."

Jordan Brower in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Further on in the review —

"Banks doesn’t fully understand the alien language, but she
knows it well enough to get by. This realization emerges
most evidently when Banks enters the alien ship and, floating
alongside Costello, converses with it in their picture-language.
She asks where Abbott is, and it responds — as presented
in subtitling — that Abbott 'is death process.'
'Death process' — dying — is not idiomatic English, and what
we see, written for us, is not a perfect translation but a
rendering of Banks’s understanding. This, it seems to me, is a
crucial moment marking the hard limit of a human mind,
working within the confines of human language to understand
an ultimately intractable xenolinguistic system."

For what may seem like an intractable xenolinguistic system to
those whose experience of mathematics is limited to portrayals
by Hollywood, see the previous post —

van Lint and Wilson Meet the Galois Tesseract.

The death process of van Lint occurred on Sept. 28, 2004.

See this journal on that date

van Lint and Wilson Meet the Galois Tesseract*

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Click image to enlarge.

The above 35 projective lines, within a 4×4 array —


The above 15 projective planes, within a 4×4 array (in white) —

* See Galois Tesseract  in this journal.

Friday, May 19, 2017

From Algebra to Geometry

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Heptapod Fluency at Yale

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". . . riverrun, past Eve and Adam's . . . ."

Cover Girl

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See also the previous post.

In the Service of Narrative

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Quoted here on St. Stephen's Day, 2008

“Wayne C. Booth’s lifelong
 study of the art of rhetoric
 illuminated the means
 by which authors seduce,
 cajole and lie to their readers
 in the service of narrative.”

— New York Times, Oct. 11, 2005

Booth was a native of American Fork, Utah.

Dance, Dance, Dancin’

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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Knock, Knock, Knockin’

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Related material from April 20, 2017

A footnote from page 229 of Sydney Padua's April 21, 2015, book
on Lovelace and Babbage —

Marquee Moon continues

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Exit stage right, enter stage center, exit stage left —

A search for "Darkness Doubled" in this journal yields a link 
to a post on "endgame art" which leads in turn to a post with
the following quotation —

"It is proposed that the two structures of grid and target
are the symbolic vehicles par excellence . . . ."

— Review of Rudolf Arnheim's The Power of the Center:
A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts
  (U. of Calif. Press, 1982).
Review by David A. Pariser, Studies in Art Education , Vol. 24, No. 3
(1983), pp. 210-213.

"Darkness Doubled" is a phrase from a song titled "Marquee Moon."

Bit Plot

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From a May 15 review of a new book by Douglas Coupland, author of
the 1991 book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture .

"Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders:
 they hoard space." — Douglas Coupland

The title of Coupland's new book suggests a review of Schmeikal 
in this  journal

Coupland's above remark on hoarders suggests a look at
a wealthy California collector whom, were he not wealthy,
some might call a hoarder.

“I buy things because they strike an emotional bell,
they appeal to my curiosity, to the thrill of discovery
of the extraordinary in the ordinary,” Mr. Cotsen told
The Denver Post in 1998. “They appeal to my sense
of humor, and to my search for the beauty in simplicity.”

He added, “I decided I had a collection when there was
no more space to put anything.”

By the time he died at 88 on May 8 in Beverly Hills, Calif.,
Mr. Cotsen (pronounced COAT-zen) had donated about
half of the material in his collections to institutions like the
Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Princeton University
and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, N.M.

Richard Sandomir in the online New York Times , May 17

Cotsen reportedly died at 88 on May 8. 

See also this  journal on that date —

Monday, May 8, 2017

New Pinterest Board

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https://www.pinterest.com/stevenhcullinane/art-space/

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Arroyo

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"Follow the Blood Arroyo to the place
where the snake lays its eggs."

— Westworld, Season 1, Episode 2,
air date October 9, 2016

"Googlaa pluplu." — Finnegans Wake

"Not far downstream was a dry channel
 where the river had run once . . . ."

— Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

See also the previous post and posts tagged Riverrun.

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

For Westworld’s Man in Black

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From University of Chicago Press in 1984:

'Erring,' by Mark C. Taylor, U. of Chicago Press, 1984

"Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida,
and others, Mark Taylor extends—and
goes well beyond—pioneering efforts. . . . "
—G. Douglas Atkins, 
Philosophy and Literature

Update at noon on May 16 —

"Follow the Blood Arroyo to the place
where the snake lays its eggs."

— Westworld, Season 1, Episode 2,
air date October 9, 2016

This suggests a review of Derrida + Serpent 
in this journal.

Monday, May 15, 2017

Exit

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For Penelope Reed Doob…

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who reportedly died on March 11 —

Posts now tagged Labyrinth for Penelope.

See also the previous post and this journal on the above date.

Appropriation at MoMA

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For example, Plato's diamond as an object to be transformed —

Plato's diamond in Jowett's version of the Meno dialogue

Versions of the transformed object —

See also The 4×4 Relativity Problem in this journal.

Saturday, May 13, 2017

Appropriation

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This suggests

See as well Heidegger for Passover.

Thursday, May 11, 2017

In Memoriam

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See also Chandrasekharan in a Log24 search for Weyl+Schema.

Update of 6:16 AM Friday, May 12, 2017 —

The phrase "smallest perfect universe" is from Burkard Polster (2001).

Annals of Hype

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Reopening the Tesseract

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Dialogue from the film "Interstellar" —

Cooper: Did it work?

TARS: I think it might have.

Cooper: How do you know?

TARS: Because the bulk beings
            are closing the tesseract.

Related material — "Bulk apperception"
in this journal, and

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

In the Park with Yin and Yang

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In memory of an art dealer who 
reportedly died on Sunday, May 7—

Decorations for a Cartoon Graveyard

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Art Space at Princeton

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A recent book on mathematics and art
from Princeton University Press, with a
foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson —

Not to put too fine a point on it —

From an earlier post

Text and Context

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Some context for the previous post, which was about
a new Art Space  Pinterest board

Monday, May 8, 2017

New Pinterest Board

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https://www.pinterest.com/stevenhcullinane/art-space/

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Sunday in the Park

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Art Space

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Detail of an image in the previous post

This suggests a review of a post on a work of art by fashion photographer
Peter Lindbergh, made when he was younger and known as "Sultan."

The balls in the foreground relate Sultan's work to my own.

Linguistic backstory —

The art space where the pieces by Talman and by Lindbergh
were displayed is Museum Tinguely in Basel.

As the previous post notes, the etymology of "glamour" (as in
fashion photography) has been linked to "grammar" (as in 
George Steiner's Grammars of Creation ). A sculpture by 
Tinguely (fancifully representing Heidegger) adorns one edition
of Grammars .

Yale University Press, 2001:

Tinguely, "Martin Heidegger,
Philosopher," sculpture, 1988

Saturday, May 6, 2017

Glamour

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Emma Watson and Jessica Chastain in 'Interview'

Requiem for a Magnate

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The New York Times  reports a Monday death

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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A search for recent activity by the Liesl Schillinger of
the previous post yields

Talk amongst yourselves.

Midrash for elitists —

The novel 2666  by Roberto Bolaño (see Bolaño in this journal
and Adam Kirsch in the above) and

Matt Helm in Donald Hamilton's 1962 novel The Silencers

"I cleaned up a little, went downstairs, and, rather than
get the pickup out of hock, paid sixty cents to have a taxi
take me to the international bridge. Two cents let me walk
across the Rio Grande into Mexico. The river bed was
almost dry. The usual skinny dark kids were playing their
usual incomprehensible games around the pools below
the bridge. Stepping off the south end of the span, I was
in a foreign country. Mexicans will tell you defensively that
Juarez isn't Mexico-that no border town is-but it certainly
isn't the United States of America, even though Avenida
Juarez, the street just south of the bridge, does bear a
certain resemblance to Coney Island. I brushed off a
purveyor of dirty pictures and shills for a couple of dirty
movie houses." 

Midrash for populists —

The photo in the New York Times  obituary
above is from the 1966 film based, very
loosely, on Donald Hamilton's The Silencers.

Frame

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Suggested by remarks in last night's link to posts tagged Swimmer —

"A professor is all-powerful, Gareth liked to tell his daughter,
he puts ‘a veritable frame around life,’ and ‘organizes the
unorganizable. Nimbly partitions it into modern and postmodern,
renaissance, baroque, primitivism, imperialism and so on. . . .'"

— From a review by Liesl Schillinger in the Aug. 13, 2006,
    New York Times  of a new novel by Marisha Pessl:
    Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

"A veritable frame" —

"Nimbly partitions" —

See also partitioning  in posts tagged  Crimson Abyss.

Friday, May 5, 2017

For the Gods of Mexico*

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A swimmer who won Olympic gold in 1936 reportedly died today.

Related material from August 4, 2008

Jodie Foster in 'Contact' viewing the opening of the 1936 Olympics

Jodie Foster and the
opening of the 1936 Olympics

“Heraclitus…. says: ‘The ruler
 whose prophecy occurs at Delphi
 oute legei oute kryptei,
 neither gathers nor hides,
 alla semainei, but gives hints.'” 

 — An Introduction to Metaphysics,
 by Martin Heidegger,
Yale University Press
paperback, 1959, p. 170

Posts tagged Swimmer may or may not be relevant.

* See … 

Por el Cinco de Mayo

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Pre-Linguistic Thought

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" I know for sure that my best insights (those which 
are not just routine calculations) are pre-linguistic, and
I struggle to put them into words . . . ."

Peter J. Cameron today

See also "George Steiner" + Language in this  journal.

A related figure —

Thursday, May 4, 2017

Where Entertainment Is God

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(Continued)

See a related obituary from Saint Michael's.  
This is for a mathematics professor who reportedly died on March 13.
See as well this  journal on that date and the night before.

In Memory of Burton Watson

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From the NYT obit of Burton Watson, a translator of classical Chinese and Japanese literature

From a post on April 1, the reported date of his death —

Cube symmetry subgroup of order 8 from 'Geometry and Symmetry,' Paul B. Yale, 1968, p.21

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

The Game

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Launch of a website on Feb. 12, 2016 —

This journal on the same date —

Bosch House

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Continued from Music Box – The Theory (April 21)
in memory of jazz enthusiast Ann Sneed,
who reportedly died in Las Vegas at 87 on that date.

Hollywood homicide detective Harry Bosch at home.

See also Mother of Beauty (April 7, 2004).

One Fell Shmoop

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Another example

"Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis
vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent:
Sibylla ti theleis; respondebat illa: apothanein thelo."

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Look Inside

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Or not.

Image Albums

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Pinterest boards uploaded to the new m759.net/piwigo

Diamond Theorem 

Diamond Theorem Correlation

Miracle Octad Generator

The Eightfold Cube

Six-Set Geometry

Diamond Theory Cover

Update of May 2 —

Four-Color Decomposition

Binary Galois Spaces

The Galois Tesseract

Update of May 3 —

Desargues via Galois

The Tetrahedral Model

Solomon's Cube

Update of May 8 —

Art Space board created at Pinterest

Monday, May 1, 2017

Pinterest

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I added today a few mathematics images to my Pinterest account —

https://www.pinterest.com/stevenhcullinane/ .

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