Entertaining Mr. Slade —
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Kate Date
Last night’s post for Oct. 30 (Devil’s Night) displayed a dark side
of actress Kate Beckinsale.
On the brighter side: a date which will live in infamy —
December 7 —
A brighter side of Kate, as a nurse on Pearl Harbor Day —
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Bright Passage, Dark Rite
" The subject is justified by its usefulness
rather than as a 'rite of passage.' ”.
— The late Martin Muldoon reviewing a book,
From Vector Spaces to Function Spaces:
Introduction to Functional Analysis with Applications ,
by Yutaka Yamamoto (SIAM, 2012)
Such an introduction is properly a rite of pure mathematics —
the passage in the title from vector spaces to function spaces.
That passage is one of mathematical beauty.
Usefulness is Hiroshima.
Muldoon reportedly died on August 1, 2019.
This journal on that date had a post titled
Different Meanings: For Whom the Bell .
The "Bell" in that post was the author of a New York Times book review.
I prefer a Stephen King bell —
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56 Triangles
The post "Triangles, Spreads, Mathieu" of October 29 has been
updated with an illustration from the Curtis Miracle Octad Generator.
Related material — A search in this journal for "56 Triangles."
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Vampire Lore
Fans of non-Christian religions ( like Robert Thurman
in Too Cool for School? ) may enjoy the vampire
oeuvre of Kate Beckinsale —
The above is an image from a Log24
search for Square Inch Space.
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Accomplished in Steps*
See also Harvard ex-president Faust on Hogwarts
and (like the above photo, also on Aug. 13) …
* See previous instances of the title in this journal.
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Too Cool for School?
An article in Men's Journal on August 1, 2013 —
For the Church of Synchronology — This journal on August 1, 2013.
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For The October Country
The above document was linked to here on Dec. 8, 2008 —
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Conceptual News
The New York Times reports this evening the
death of a Conceptual artist on October 19 —
Conceptual art from October 19 —
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Triangles, Spreads, Mathieu
There are many approaches to constructing the Mathieu
group M24. The exercise below sketches an approach that
may or may not be new.
Exercise:
It is well-known that …
There are 56 triangles in an 8-set.
There are 56 spreads in PG(3,2).
The alternating group An is generated by 3-cycles.
The alternating group A8 is isomorphic to GL(4,2).
Use the above facts, along with the correspondence
described below, to construct M24.
Some background —
A Log24 post of May 19, 2013, cites …
Peter J. Cameron in a 1976 Cambridge U. Press
book — Parallelisms of Complete Designs .
See the proof of Theorem 3A.13 on pp. 59 and 60.
See also a Google search for "56 triangles" "56 spreads" Mathieu.
Update of October 31, 2019 — A related illustration —
Update of November 2, 2019 —
See also p. 284 of Geometry and Combinatorics:
Selected Works of J. J. Seidel (Academic Press, 1991).
That page is from a paper published in 1970.
Update of December 20, 2019 —
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Monday, October 28, 2019
Stuff
The Stuff of Legend —
Stronger Stuff —
For a third stuff — that which dreams are made of — see Mantilla.
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D8ing
“There has never since been any serious question
that the event from which to date the founding of
Harvard College is this vote on October 28, 1636.”
— Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College
See also D8ing the Joystick (4/04 2018).
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A Larger Truth
From an article on cybersecurity in today's new New Yorker —
Boback and Hopkins formed a corporation.
Hopkins came up with its name, Tiversa ,
a portmanteau of “time” and “universe.”
It was also an anagram of veritas : Latin for
“truth,” but scrambled.
Then there is …
vastier veritas —
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Cipher Prequel*
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Sunday, October 27, 2019
Cipher
"The postwar self became a cipher to be decoded."
— Nathaniel Comfort in Nature , PDF dated 10 October 2019
From a Log24 search for Temple of Doom —
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Friday Night Lights
Entertainment from NBC on Friday night —
The above question, and Saturday morning's post on a film director
from Melbourne, suggest an image from December's Melbourne Noir —
(March 8, 2018, was the date of death for Melbourne author Peter Temple.)
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Partial Recall*
* For the title, see Saturday morning's post
"Popular Mechanics: Midnight Upgrade."
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Saturday, October 26, 2019
Director’s Cut
The title was suggested by the previous post and by
the title illustration in the weblog of the director,
Leigh Whannell, of the 2018 film “Upgrade.”
Related visual details —
For the Church of Synchronology —
Related remarks: “The Thing and I.”
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Popular Mechanics: Midnight Upgrade
The above scenes are from an imaginary sequel to
“Topological Quantum Field Theory for Vampires.” —
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Friday, October 25, 2019
Facettenreiche Gestaltung
On the word Gestaltung —
(Here “eidolon” should instead be “eidos .”)
A search for a translation of the book "Facettenreiche Mathematik " —
A paper found in the above search —
A related translation —
See also octad.design.
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Midnight 5×5
See as well this journal on the above FlixLatino date: Dec. 3, 2015.
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
Halloween Logos for MIT
From the end credits for a 2016 TV mini-series
based on the Stephen King novel 11/22/63 —
This post was suggested by the Oct. 22 post
Logos, by the Oct. 11 post Dick Date, and by
the Oct. 11 death of an MIT robotics professor.
Related tasteless humor —
A headline from the print version of the recent
technology issue of The New Yorker :
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Art-Historical Narrative*
"Leonardo was something like what we now call a Conceptual artist,
maybe the original one. Ideas — experiments, theories — were
creative ends in themselves."
— Holland Cotter in the online New York TImes this evening
From other Log24 posts tagged Tetrahedron vs. Square —
* Phrase from the previous post, "Overarching Narrative."
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Overarching Narrative
In memory of a retired co-director of Galerie St. Etienne
who reportedly died on October 17 . . .
"It is… difficult to mount encyclopedic exhibitions
without an overarching art-historical narrative…."
— Jane Kallir, director of Galerie St. Etienne, in
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/
visual-art-and-design/269564/the-end-of-middle-class-art
An overarching narrative from the above death date —
See as well the previous post
and "Dancing at Lughnasa."
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Philosophy in a New Key
(With apologies to Susanne K. Langer, née Susanne Katherina Knauth)
See too the buzzard-related Catch-22 song —
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