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Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 4:00 am

An Epic Search for Truth

— Subtitle of Logicomix , a work reviewed in the December 2010 Notices of the American Mathematical Society  (see previous post).

Some future historian of mathematics may contrast the lurid cover of the December 2010 Notices

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101119-AMSnoticesThumb.jpg

Excerpts from Logicomix

with the 1979 cover found in a somewhat less epic search —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101120-79T-A37-500w.jpg

Larger view of Google snippet —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101120-79T-A37-snippet.jpg

For some purely mathematical background, see Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube.

For some background related to searches for truth, see "Coxeter + Trudeau" in this journal.

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