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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Solomon’s Seal

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

(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—

IMAGE- Eric Temple Bell on the mathematics of 'Solomon's Seal' (in his 'Development of Mathematics')

A fact related to the mathematical
"Solomon's seal" described above by Bell:

IMAGE- J.W.P. Hirschfeld on the mathematics of 'Solomon's Seal', with reference to Edge on the same topic

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)).

As for the narrative's Stone… 

See Solomon's Cube.

IMAGE- 'Solomon's Cube'

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