In memory of a meeting of the Philomorphs at Sever Hall,
Harvard University, in 1978 . . .
Loeb died on July 19, 2002. Vide this journal on the next day.
* The purely mathematical kind —
“By far the most important structure in design theory
is the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24).”
— “Block Designs,” by Andries E. Brouwer
(Ch. 14 (pp. 693-746) of Handbook of Combinatorics,
Vol. I, MIT Press, 1995, edited by Ronald L. Graham,
Martin Grötschel, and László Lovász, Section 16 (p. 716))