Mental Health Month:
Springtime for Wagner
“And now what you’ve all been waiting for…
— Colin Hay as Zac in the film “Cosi“
“When I sought those who would sympathize with my plans, I had only you, the friends of my particular art, my most personal work and creation, to turn to.”
— Wagner’s address at the ceremony for the laying of the foundation stone of the Festival Theater in Bayreuth, May 22 (Wagner’s birthday), 1872
“The new computer package DISCRETA which was created in Bayreuth is in the process of permanent development.”
— “A Computer Approach to the Enumeration of Block Designs Which Are Invariant With Respect to a Prescribed Permutation Group”
The above is a preprint from Dresden.
See, too, the work of Bierbrauer, who received his doctorate at Mainz in 1977 and taught at Heidelberg from 1977 to 1994. Bierbrauer’s lecture notes give a particularly good background for the concepts involved in my Diamond Theory, in the tradition of Witt and Artin. See
Introduction to Group Theory
and Applications,
by Jürgen Bierbrauer, 138 pp., PostScript