History, Stephen said….
— To really know a subject you've got to learn a bit of its history….
We both know what memories can bring;
They bring diamonds and rust.
All sorts of structures that can be defined for finite sets have analogues for the projective geometry of finite fields….
Clearly this pattern is trying to tell us something; the question is what. As always, it pays to focus on the simplest case, since that's where everything starts.
In the beginning was the word….
— The Gospel according to Saint John
The anonymous author of John makes liberal use of allegory and double-entendre to illustrate this theme.
Born yesterday: Logician John Venn.
Venn considered three discs R, S, and T as typical subsets of a set U. The intersections of these discs and their complements divide U into 8 nonoverlapping regions….
— History of Mathematics at St. Andrews
Who would not be rapt by the thought of such marvels?….