"This is not the Himmelfarb you're looking for."
— Obi-Wan Kenobi
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
New Year’s Eve at the Star Wars Bar
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Happy New Year from Peter J. Cameron
From an earlier A.P. obituary for Mehta —
" When the Center for Fiction honored Mehta in 2018 with a
lifetime achievement award, tributes were written by Joan Didion,
Haruki Murakami and Anne Tyler, who praised 'his precision' and
'deft assurance' and called him the 'Fred Astaire of editing.' "
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Monday, December 30, 2019
“Welcome to Scotland.”
John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland,
reportedly died there in the early morning
of Saturday, November 16, 2019.
See also Alasdair Gray and Eddington Song —
in particular, Logic in the Spielfeld.
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Death on Becket’s Day
Author Alasdair Gray reportedly died yesterday,
on the feast of St. Thomas à Becket.
"His Collected Verse (2010) was followed by
Every Short Story 1951-2012 . Hell and Purgatory ,
the first two parts of his version of Dante’s
Divine Comedy , “decorated and Englished in
prosaic verse”, appeared in 2018 and 2019.
In November Gray received the inaugural
Saltire Society Scottish Lifetime Achievement award."
— https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/29/
alasdair-gray-obituary
See some related remarks from May 15, 1998.
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Number and Time
(Hat tip for the title to Marie-Louise von Franz.)
Remarks by Metod Saniga from the previous post —
Remarks by Wolfgang Pauli, a friend of von Franz —
"This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian.
[Empty frame with jagged sides]. Only technical details
are missing." — As quoted at Derevianko Group.
Related material (see Oct. 11, 2010) —
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Sunday, December 29, 2019
Springer Link
Related reading —
"I closed my eyes and saw the number 137—
so very close to the reciprocal of alpha—
on the chest of the runner in Van Cortlandt Park.
Should I start the story there? "
— Alpert, Mark. Saint Joan of New York
(Science and Fiction) (p. 103).
Springer International Publishing. Kindle edition.
Cover detail:
See as well St. Joan in this journal.
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Morning of the Iguana
Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker this morning —
" … mysteriously durable manner of mythical depiction,
which runs forward to Egyptian wall paintings and,
for that matter, to modern animation. Therianthropes,
it seems, reflect the symbolic practice of giving to
humans the powers of animals, a shamanistic rite
that seems tied to the origins of religion, and here it is,
for the first time, a startup.
… one of the human figures, we’re told, has
'a tapering profile that possibly merges into the base
of a thick tail and with short, curved limbs splayed out
to the side. In our opinion, this part of the body resembles
the lower half of a lizard or crocodile. …' "
Related art —
Logo by Saul Bass.
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Articulation Raid
“… And so each venture Is a new beginning,
a raid on the inarticulate….”
— T. S. Eliot, “East Coker V” in Four Quartets
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arXiv:1409.5691v1 [math.CO] 17 Sep 2014
The Complement of Binary Klein Quadric as
Metod Saniga, Abstract
Given a hyperbolic quadric of PG(5, 2), there are 28 points off this quadric and 56 lines skew to it. It is shown that the Keywords:
Combinatorial Grassmannian − |
See also this journal on the above date — 17 September 2014.
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Saturday, December 28, 2019
Caballo Blanco
“The key is the cocktail that begins the proceedings.”
– Brian Harley, Mate in Two Moves
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“Just as these lines that merge to form a key
Are as chess squares . . . .” — Katherine Neville, The Eight
“The complete projective group of collineations and dualities of the
[projective] 3-space is shown to be of order [in modern notation] 8! ….
To every transformation of the 3-space there corresponds
a transformation of the [projective] 5-space. In the 5-space, there are
determined 8 sets of 7 points each, ‘heptads’ ….”
— George M. Conwell, “The 3-space PG (3, 2) and Its Group,”
The Annals of Mathematics , Second Series, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jan., 1910),
pp. 60-76.
“It must be remarked that these 8 heptads are the key to an elegant proof….”
— Philippe Cara, “RWPRI Geometries for the Alternating Group A8,” in
Finite Geometries: Proceedings of the Fourth Isle of Thorns Conference
(July 16-21, 2000), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, ed. Aart Blokhuis,
James W. P. Hirschfeld, Dieter Jungnickel, and Joseph A. Thas, pp. 61-97.
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Friday, December 27, 2019
The Secret Life of Mark Alpert
"Alpert, an editor for Scientific American , laces his high-IQ
doomsday thriller with clearly explicated and hauntingly beautiful
scientific theories…."
Booklist on The Omega Theory :
"Alpert’s follow-up to his acclaimed first novel, Final Theory (2008),
continues the adventures of science historian David Swift."
See as well this journal on June 1, 2008.
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God in the Object…
. . . Pace Wallace Stevens.
"The history of the universe can thus be seen as
an endless chain of changes, but Aquinas argued
that there must be some transcendent entity that
initiated the chain, something that is itself
unchanging and that already possesses all of the
properties that worldly objects can come to possess.
He also claimed that this entity must be eternal;
because it is the root of all causes, nothing else
could’ve caused it. And unlike all worldly objects,
the transcendent entity is necessary—it must exist."
— Mark Alpert in Scientific American, 12/23/2019
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Thursday, December 26, 2019
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
O Found
Hat tip to University Diaries for today's link to…
O Lost (Thomas Wolfe in The Paris Review , Winter 1999).
See as well —
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Stille Nacht
Later in the film… "He's not Einstein… You're Einstein."
Related material at the University of Iowa —
See as well this journal on the above Daily Iowan date.
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Lucy Noir …
… Continued from August 26 —
Heidegger, "Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry,"
translated by Douglas Scott, in Existence and Being ,
Regnery, 1949, pp. 291-316—
See as well Readings for St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2005.
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Monday, December 23, 2019
Orbit
"December 22, the birth anniversary of India’s famed mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan, is celebrated as National Mathematics Day."
— Indian Express yesterday
"Orbits and stabilizers are closely related." — Wikipedia
Symmetries by Plato and R. T. Curtis —
In the above, 322,560 is the order
of the octad stabilizer group .
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Sunday, December 22, 2019
M24 from the Eightfold Cube
Exercise: Use the Guitart 7-cycles below to relate the 56 triples
in an 8-set (such as the eightfold cube) to the 56 triangles in
a well-known Klein-quartic hyperbolic-plane tiling. Then use
the correspondence of the triples with the 56 spreads of PG(3,2)
to construct M24.
Click image below to download a Guitart PowerPoint presentation.
See as well earlier posts also tagged Triangles, Spreads, Mathieu.
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Saturday, December 21, 2019
Last of the God Professors
From some autobiographical remarks by Simon During,
who was featured in the previous post —
For more on the phrase “god professor,” see
“The Ownership of Knowledge in Higher Education
in Australia 1939-1996,” Hannah Forsyth, Ph.D. thesis,
University of Sydney, 2012
Simon During at Utrecht earlier this year —
For the Church of Synchronology, other April 11, 2019, remarks —
See in particular the phrase “Eritis sicut dei ” in the Log24 remarks.
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Melbourne Noir Continues
The previous post's link to posts tagged March 8, 2018,
suggests a look at recent thoughts by a Melbourne academic:
Manifesto in Green and Red
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Friday, December 20, 2019
Identity Theory*
The van Dam cited by Polster should not be confused
with the fictional Vandamm of "North by Northwest."
See Pursued by a Biplane (Log24, May 23, 2017).
* For the title, see posts tagged March 8, 2018.
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Triangles, Spreads, Mathieu…
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Thursday, December 19, 2019
In the Game
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Product 19
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019
A Singular Eye
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