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Friday, August 31, 2018

Perception of Number

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 8:31 pm

Review of yesterday's post Perception of Space

From Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone  (1997),
republished as "… and the Sorcerer's Stone ," Kindle edition:

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In a print edition from Bloomsbury (2004), and perhaps in the
earliest editions, the above word "movements" is the first word
on page 168:

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Click the above ellipse for some Log24 posts on the eightfold cube,
the source of the 168 automorphisms ("movements") of the Fano plane.

"Refined interpretation requires that you know that
someone once said the offspring of reality and illusion
is only a staggering confusion."

— Poem, "The Game of Roles," by Mary Jo Bang

Related material on reality and illusion
an ad on the back cover of the current New Yorker

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"Hey, the stars might lie, but the numbers never do." — Song lyric

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Twenty Years

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:16 pm

This post was suggested by the final inside page, 23,
of next Sunday's New York Times Book Review ,
"Memorabilia/ Happy 20th Anniversary, Harry Potter."

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From VOA Learning English, June 26, 2017

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books
Turn 20 Years Old

. . . .

" J.K. Rowling’s first book about Harry and his friends at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was released on June 26, 1997.

The publisher, Bloomsbury, only released 500 copies to stores in Britain and sent 500 to British libraries.

Now, thanks to 450 million more copies of the first book and six others, Harry Potter and his friends are known around the world.

Adults and children loved the books. But 12 publishers rejected the first one, known in many countries as 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.' "

. . . .

See as well this  journal on June 26, 2017 in
posts now tagged Ron Shaw In Memoriam.

Perception* of Space

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 2:12 pm

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* A footnote in memory of a dancer who reportedly died
  yesterday, August 29 —  See posts tagged Paradigm Shift.

"Birthday, death-day — what day is not both?" — John Updike

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

For St. Augustine’s Day

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 pm

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Whether the word "condescension" functions as purple Kool-Aid
here or in the previous post, the reader may decide.

See Becomes Saw

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:46 pm

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Hid

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:06 pm

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Monday, August 27, 2018

Geometry and Simplicity

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:27 pm

From

Thinking in Four Dimensions
By Dusa McDuff

"I’ve got the rather foolhardy idea of trying to explain
to you the kind of mathematics I do, and the kind of
ideas that seem simple to me. For me, the search
for simplicity is almost synonymous with the search
for structure.

I’m a geometer and topologist, which means that
I study the structure of space
. . . .

In each dimension there is a simplest space
called Euclidean space … "

— In Roman Kossak, ed.,
Simplicity:  Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts
(Kindle Locations 705-710, 735). Kindle Edition.

For some much simpler spaces of various
dimensions, see Galois Space in this journal.

Some small Galois spaces (the Cullinane models)

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Children of the Six Sides

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:32 am

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From the former date above —

Saturday, September 17, 2016

A Box of Nothing

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:13 AM

(Continued)

"And six sides to bounce it all off of.

From the latter date above —

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Parametrization

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 6:00 AM

The term "parametrization," as discussed in Wikipedia, seems useful for describing labelings that are not, at least at first glance, of a vector-space  nature.

Examples: The labelings of a 4×4 array by a blank space plus the 15 two-subsets of a six-set (Hudson, 1905) or by a blank plus the 5 elements and the 10 two-subsets of a five-set (derived in 2014 from a 1906 page by Whitehead), or by a blank plus the 15 line diagrams of the diamond theorem.

Thus "parametrization" is apparently more general than the word "coodinatization" used by Hermann Weyl —

“This is the relativity problem:  to fix objectively a class of equivalent coordinatizations and to ascertain the group of transformations S mediating between them.”

— Hermann Weyl, The Classical Groups , Princeton University Press, 1946, p. 16

Note, however, that Weyl's definition of "coordinatization" is not limited to vector-space  coordinates. He describes it as simply a mapping to a set of reproducible symbols

(But Weyl does imply that these symbols should, like vector-space coordinates, admit a group of transformations among themselves that can be used to describe transformations of the point-space being coordinatized.)

From March 2018 —

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Sunday, August 26, 2018

For the Green Man

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:30 pm

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Mathematics and Narrative: Queensland

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:56 am

Mathematics —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180826-Cameron-on-U_of_Queensland-slide-500w.jpg

Narrative —

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See also other recent posts tagged Queensland.

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Review

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:55 pm

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Schoolgirl Problem

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:40 pm

For Pagan Moore

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See also "as frivolous as a willow on a tombstone."

“Waugh, Orwell. Orwell, Waugh.”

Suggested by a review of Curl on Modernism —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180825-Ballard-on-Modernism.gif

Related material —

Waugh + Orwell in this journal and

Cube Bricks 1984

An Approach to Symmetric Generation of the Simple Group of Order 168

Point at Infinity

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:20 am

In literature —

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In film —

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In mathematics —

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Friday, August 24, 2018

The Wandelweiser Manifesto

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:35 pm

Or:  Signpost of Change

From a cartoon graveyard

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Backstory

Alex Ross on Wandelweiser, September 2016

Academic and Transformations

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:59 pm

For Doctor Sleep .

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See as well "STEAM" in this journal.

“1, 2, 3” . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:00 am

See previous post.

Update of 6:29 AM — Click to enlarge

Oppenheimer homecoming, with ad for 'Pussy-Footer' alarm clock

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Co-writer

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:23 pm

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See related posts.

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Castle Rock

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:03 pm

See the title in a TV review* from io9 this morning and in
this  journal.

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* Spoiler alert

Apple

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:06 pm

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Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Purported Endgame

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:29 pm

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A search for "IMA" yields, at ima.org.au . . .

"Since 1975, the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) has been Queensland’s 
leading independent forum for art and its discourses." And

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"Clog, therefore, purple Jack and crimson Jill."

— Wallace Stevens

Available Light

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:16 pm

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Click the image above for an interview dated Nov. 9, 2015.
Also on that date —

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Monday, August 20, 2018

Available Legend

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:27 pm

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http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180820-Jessica_Jones-S2-E12-AKA_Playland.jpg

See also the recent post Apollo and the Furies.

A Wheel for Ellmann

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:12 pm

The title was suggested by Ellmann's roulette-wheel analogy
in the previous post, "The Perception of Coincidence."

I Ching hexagrams as a Singer 63-cycle, plus zero

The Perception of Coincidence

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:15 am

Ellmann on Joyce and 'the perception of coincidence' —

"Samuel Beckett has remarked that to Joyce reality was a paradigm,
an illustration of a possibly unstatable rule. Yet perhaps the rule
can be surmised. It is not a perception of order or of love; more humble
than either of these, it is the perception of coincidence. According to
this rule, reality, no matter how much we try to manipulate it, can only
assume certain forms; the roulette wheel brings up the same numbers
again and again; everyone and everything shift about in continual
movement, yet movement limited in its possibilities."

— Richard Ellmann, James Joyce , rev. ed.. Oxford, 1982, p. 551

Sunday, August 19, 2018

Possible Permutations

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 9:18 pm

John Calder, an independent British publisher who built a prestigious list
of authors like Samuel Beckett and Heinrich Böll and spiritedly defended
writers like Henry Miller against censorship, died on Aug. 13 in Edinburgh.
He was 91.

— Richard Sandomir in the online New York Times  this evening

On Beckett —

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Also on August 13th

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The Search for Veritas

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:16 pm

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See as well the search for Veritas  in this  journal.

Apollo and the Furies

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:40 am

Narration by the fictional schoolgirl Pagan Moore in a novel
apparently first published on March 4, 2004

"Now, can anyone else tell me or shall I ask Miss Moore again to help us out?” 

“Apollo is a symbol for the male, the rational, the young, and the civilized. The Furies represent the female, the violent, the old, and the primal. Aeschylus captures a mythical moment in history, one in which the world was torn between a savage and archaic past and the bold new order of Greek civilization, the young Olympian gods, and rationality. The difficulty of the struggle between these two worlds is dramatized by the cycle of violence in the House of Atreus and the clash between Apollo and the Furies.” 

No one giggled after Dank finished.

Existence  (first novel of a trilogy), pp. 80-81.
By Abbi Glines. Kindle Edition.

Update at 1:37 PM ET the same day —

A check for the source of the above speech yields

"Apollo is a symbol for the male, the rational, the young, and the civilized.
The Furies represent the female, the violent, the old, and the primal."

This passage is from
https://www.gradesaver.com/the-eumenides/study-guide/themes.
From the citation data there —
"By Borey, Eddie. 'The Eumenides Themes.'
GradeSaver, 24 October 2000 Web."

Saturday, August 18, 2018

Pagan Song Trilogy

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:45 pm

Trilogy about the fictional schoolgirl Pagan Moore

"I can feel the Devil walking next to me"

Song lyric from the musical "Chess"

Friday, August 17, 2018

Hogwarts Peak

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:00 pm

Or:  Misery, Jessica …  Jessica, Misery .

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Related material from The Harvard Crimson

"The beach and the castle on the hill and the waves
would always be here, always moving, always changing,
but always constant." 

— Robert Miranda, "The Simplicity of Waves," August 8, 2018

Related material on waves (i.e. , "Fourier's laboratory") —

See also this  journal on August 8.

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