(Mathematics and Narrative, continued)
Narrative—
The Ring and The Stone from yesterday’s post, and…
“In Medieval Jewish, Christian and Islamic legends,
the Seal of Solomon was a magical signet ring
said to have been possessed by King Solomon….”
— Wikipedia article, Seal of Solomon
Mathematics—
A fact related to the mathematical
“Solomon’s seal” described above by Bell:
The reference to Edge is as follows—
[3] Edge, W. L., Quadrics over GF(2) and
their relevance for the cubic surface group,
Canadian J. Maths. 11 (1959) ….
(This reference relates Hirschfeld’s remarks
quoted above to the 64-point affine space
illustrated below (via the associated
63-point projective space PG (5, 2)).
See Solomon’s Cube.
