A transcription—
"Now suppose that α is an element of order 23 in M 24 ; we number the points of Ω
as the projective line ∞, 0, 1, 2, … , 22 so that
fact there is a full L 2 (23) acting on this line and preserving the octads…."
— R. T. Curtis, "A New Combinatorial Approach to M 24 ,"
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (1976),
A more sophisticated alpha and omega . . .
— R. T. Curtis, "A New Combinatorial Approach to M 24 ,"
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (1976),
A related key . . .
"It must be remarked that these 8 heptads are the key to an elegant proof…."
— Philippe Cara, "RWPRI Geometries for the Alternating Group A8," in
Finite Geometries: Proceedings of the Fourth Isle of Thorns Conference
(July 16-21, 2000), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, ed. Aart Blokhuis,
James W. P. Hirschfeld, Dieter Jungnickel, and Joseph A. Thas, pp. 61-97.
For art more closely related to the title "Alpha and Omega,"
see a different view of the above Hoyersten exhibition.
"First and last, he was a skeptic …."
— Home page of Martin-Gardner.org
See also, in this journal, Alpha and Omega.
Related material from the last full day of Gardner's life —
See as well Symplectic in this journal.
The title pun is from a letter about Google's new parent
company, named "Alphabet" by its founders.
Related material: Alpha and Omega in this journal.
COLLEGE OF THE DESERT
Minutes — Organization Meeting
11:00 a.m., Saturday, July 1, 1961—
15. Preparation of College Seal:
By unanimous consent preparation of a College
Seal to contain the following features was
authorized: A likeness of the Library building
set in a matrix of date palms, backed by
a mountain skyline and rising sun; before
the Library an open book, the Greek symbol
Alpha on one page and Omega on the other;
the Latin Lux et Veritas, College of the
Desert, and 1958 to be imprinted within or
around the periphery of the seal.
From the website http://geofhagopian.net/ of
Geoff Hagopian, Professor of Mathematics,
College of the Desert—
Note that this version of the seal contains
an Aleph and Omega instead of Alpha and Omega.
From another Hagopian website, another seal.
From Rebecca Goldstein's Talks and Appearances page—
• "36 (Bad) Arguments for the Existence of God,"
Annual Meeting of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
Marriot, Hartford, CT, Oct 7 [2011], 7 PM
From Wallace Stevens—
"Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
of dense investiture, with luminous vassals."
— “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” VI
For those who prefer greater depth on Yom Kippur, yesterday's cinematic link suggests…
"Yo sé de un laberinto griego que es una línea única, recta."
—Borges, "La Muerte y la Brújula " ("Death and the Compass")
See also Alpha and Omega (Sept. 18, 2011) and some context from 1931.
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