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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Diamond Theorem Unit Cube Design

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:53 am

https://websim.ai/p/74wzs2lcd6qlpe8491rz/24

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Diamond Theorem Studio

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:36 pm

By Steven H. Cullinane and Websim.ai —

https://websim.ai/p/_dorlgddf3vcxh6qjysy/16 .

Saturday, October 19, 2024

AI Perceptions of the Cullinane Diamond Theorem . . .
Continue to Evolve.

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:40 am

Update of 12:10 PM EDT October 19 — AI Overview from Google —

The Google AI Overview now includes an illustration and mentions a
new technique ("map systems") which may eventually be generalized.

Monday, March 4, 2024

Report on the Diamond Theorem
by Google Gemini (Advanced)

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:26 pm
 

Diamond Theorem Report

by Google Gemini AI

Monday, March 4, 2024


Can you write an academic paper, with source citations, about the Cullinane  diamond theorem?

Absolutely! Here's an academic paper about the Cullinane diamond theorem. Please note that while I provide citations, in a fully formatted paper you'd need to adhere to your chosen academic style guide for proper formatting:

The Cullinane Diamond Theorem:
Exploring Symmetries in Graphic Design

Abstract

This paper examines the Cullinane diamond theorem, a principle in finite projective geometry that offers unexpected insights into the symmetries found in graphic designs. The theorem, initially formulated by Steven H. Cullinane, reveals that patterns built from simple geometric components, like diamonds or chevrons, possess inherent symmetry properties under specific transformation groups. We will discuss the mathematical foundations of the theorem, its relation to the Miracle Octad Generator, and its applications in design and the study of finite fields.

Introduction

Symmetry plays a vital role in art and design, contributing to a sense of balance, harmony, and aesthetic appeal. While often associated with classical forms, symmetry also manifests in surprising ways within seemingly simple graphic patterns. The Cullinane diamond theorem provides a mathematical framework to understand and predict these hidden symmetries.

Mathematical Background

    Finite Projective Geometries: The Cullinane diamond theorem has its roots in finite projective geometry. A finite projective geometry PG(n, q) consists of a finite set of points and lines, where each line contains q + 1 points, and any two distinct points lie on a unique line ([1]).

    Diamond Figure: Cullinane focuses on a specific pattern called the four-diamond figure (D). This figure is composed of 16 tiles arranged in a 4×4 array, where each tile is divided diagonally into two colors ([2]).

    Transformation Group: The group G of transformations is formed by all possible permutations of rows, columns, and 2×2 quadrants of the diamond figure, along with color interchanges. The size of this group is 322,560 ([2]).

The Cullinane Diamond Theorem

Theorem:
Any image produced by applying transformations from the group G to the original diamond figure (D) will possess some form of ordinary or color-interchange symmetry ([2]).

Proof:
Cullinane's proof employs a decomposition technique for functions into a finite field.  It demonstrates that the G-images of the diamond figure create an ideal within a ring of symmetric patterns. This ideal has 1024 patterns where any horizontal or vertical "cut" through the pattern remains uninterrupted ([2]).

Connections to the Miracle Octad Generator

The Cullinane diamond theorem shares a relationship with R.T. Curtis's Miracle Octad Generator (MOG). The MOG is a combinatorial structure within the study of sporadic simple groups with symmetry properties similar to those described by the theorem ([3]).

Applications

    Graphic Design: The theorem informs artistic compositions employing diamond and chevron-like shapes. Designers can leverage the inherent symmetries to generate visually pleasing and intricate patterns.

    Quilt Patterns: Many traditional quilt designs incorporate the geometries described by the theorem, leading to the emergence of symmetrical patterns, even when randomness might be involved in the selection of colors or tiles.

    Finite Fields: The Cullinane diamond theorem establishes an isomorphism between specific "diamond" rings and rings of matrices over GF(4), offering insights into the structure of finite fields ([2]).

Conclusion

The Cullinane diamond theorem elegantly connects abstract mathematics with the world of graphic design. It unveils latent symmetries embedded within basic geometric shapes, providing a tool for understanding and creating visually balanced patterns. The theorem's connections to finite fields and combinatorial structures highlight its significance in broader mathematical research.

Citations

[1] Weisstein, E. W. “Finite Projective Geometry.” From MathWorld–A Wolfram Web Resource. [invalid URL removed]

[2] Cullinane, S. H. "Cullinane Diamond Theorem." Encyclopedia of Mathematics. https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Cullinane_diamond_theorem

[3] Curtis, R. T. (1976). A New Combinatorial Approach to M₂₄. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 79(1), 25–42. doi:10.1017/S0305004100052075

Let me know if you'd like me to expand on any particular aspect or provide additional citations!


Sources [I.e., the source of the Curtis citation]

   1. www.hellenicaworld.com/Science/Mathematics/en/MathieuGroup.html


Gemini may display inaccurate info, including about people, so double-check it.

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Cullinane Diamond Theorem:
The Latest Google Bard Version

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 7:00 am
 

Prompt:

What is the Cullinane diamond theorem?

Google Bard Response:

The Cullinane diamond theorem is a fascinating result in the realm of finite projective geometry and symmetry. It focuses on a specific pattern – the four-diamond figure – and reveals a surprising property about its transformations.

The Four-Diamond Figure:

Imagine a 4×4 grid filled with 16 small squares, half colored black and half white. Now, divide these squares diagonally into quarters, creating four diamonds with alternating black and white shades. This arrangement is the four-diamond figure.

_________________


[Clearly erroneous illustration with link to amazon.com
is omitted.]

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The Theorem:

The Cullinane diamond theorem states that no matter how you scramble this four-diamond figure by randomly shuffling rows, columns, and the four 2×2 quadrants, the resulting pattern will always exhibit some form of symmetry. This symmetry can come in two forms:

Ordinary symmetry: This is the familiar reflectional symmetry where a vertical or horizontal axis divides the pattern into mirrored halves.

Color-interchange symmetry: Here, the pattern has a diagonal axis where swapping the black and white colors results in the same image.

Intriguing Implications:

This statement might seem intuitive at first. After all, even with scrambling, some semblance of order should remain. However, the beauty of the Cullinane diamond theorem lies in its generality and the precise mathematical framework it provides for understanding these symmetries.

The theorem sheds light on the underlying structure of graphic patterns and connects them to concepts from finite projective geometry. This connection allows us to analyze and classify these patterns in a systematic way, revealing hidden connections and surprising symmetries.

Applications and Beyond:

The Cullinane diamond theorem has found applications in various areas, including:

Sporadic simple groups: The Miracle Octad Generator, used to study these rare and exceptional groups, relies on the symmetry properties outlined in the theorem.

Orthogonal Latin squares: The connection between orthogonal Latin squares and projective spreads can be understood through the lens of the Cullinane diamond theorem.

Walsh functions: The symmetry properties of Walsh functions, used in signal processing and coding theory, can be linked to the diamond patterns.

Understanding the Cullinane diamond theorem offers a deeper appreciation for the interplay between symmetry, geometry, and seemingly random patterns. It serves as a testament to the beauty and hidden order within the realm of mathematics.

Bard may display inaccurate info, including . . . .

[Exercise … Find any inaccurate information
in the Bard response above.]

Monday, November 27, 2023

The Diamond Theorem According to Llama 2

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:51 pm

The above is one of many wildly inaccurate responses on this topic
from chatbots. A chatbot combined with search,  however —
such as Bing Chat with GPT-4 —  can be both accurate and helpful.

Saturday, November 11, 2023

The Diamond Theorem and Graphic Design

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:59 pm

A "Cullinane Diamond Theorem" question suggested today by Bing Chat —

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Cullinane Diamond Theorem at
University of the Basque Country

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:44 am

See also Shibumi  Continues — June 29, 2022.

Saturday, September 23, 2023

The Cullinane Diamond Theorem at Wikipedia

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:48 am

This post was prompted by the recent removal of a reference to
the theorem
on the Wikipedia "Diamond theorem" disambiguation 
page.  The reference, which has been there since 2015, was removed
because it linked to an external source (Encyclopedia of Mathematics)
​instead of to a Wikipedia article.

For anyone who might be interested in creating a Wikipedia  article on
my work, here are some facts that might be reformatted for that website . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
User:Cullinane/sandbox —

Cullinane diamond theorem

The theorem uses finite geometry to explain some symmetry properties of some simple graphic designs, like those found in quilts, that are constructed from chevrons or diamonds.

The theorem was first discovered by Steven H. Cullinane in 1975 and was published in 1977 in Computer Graphics and Art.

The theorem was also published as an abstract in 1979 in Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

The symmetry properties described by the theorem are related to those of the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis.

The theorem is described in detail in the Encyclopedia of Mathematics article "Cullinane diamond theorem."

References

Steven H. Cullinane, "Diamond theory," Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 1977, pages 5-7.

_________, Abstract 79T-A37, "Symmetry invariance in a diamond ring," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, February 1979, pages A-193, 194.

_________, "Cullinane diamond theorem," Encyclopedia of Mathematics.

R. T. Curtis, A new combinatorial approach to M24, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1976, Vol. 79, Issue 1, pages 24-42.

Sunday, August 27, 2023

“Diamond Theorem” Search Result

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Click to enlarge.

Saturday, February 25, 2023

The Diamond Theorem according to ChatGPT

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:38 am

ChatGPT on the diamond theorem, Feb. 25, 2023.

The part about tilings, group actions, and the diamond-shaped
pattern is more or less OK.  The parts about Thurston and 
applications are utterly false. 

Compare and contrast . . .

Friday, April 29, 2022

The Diamond Theorem in Basque Country

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:57 pm

Translated by Google as . . .

The Truchet Tiles and the Diamond Puzzle and
     The Art of the Simple Truchet Tile.

About the author: 

Raúl Ibáñez is a professor in the Department of Mathematics
at the UPV/EHU and collaborator with the Chair of Scientific Culture.

About his school:

The University of the Basque Country 
(Basque: Euskal Herriko UnibertsitateaEHU 
Spanish: Universidad del País VascoUPV UPV/EHU)
is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community.
Wikipedia

Monday, April 19, 2021

Diamond Theorem at ScienceOpen

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:22 pm

Update on April 20, 2021 —
The following was added today to the above summary:

“It describes a group of 322,560 permutations, later known as
‘the octad group,’ that now plays a role in speculative high-energy physics.
See Moonshine, Superconformal Symmetry, and Quantum Error Correction .”

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Diamond Theorem Symmetry

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 1:00 am

The title is a useful search phrase:

Monday, December 11, 2017

The Diamond Theorem at SASTRA

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:35 pm

The following IEEE paper is behind a paywall,
but the first page is now available for free
at deepdyve.com

For further details on the diamond theorem, see
finitegeometry.org/sc/ or the archived version at . . .

DOI

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

The Diamond Theorem in Vancouver

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 2:56 pm

A designer from New Zealand

Happy 10th birthday to the hashtag.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

The Diamond Theorem …

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am

As the Key to All Mythologies

For the theorem of the title, see "Diamond Theorem" in this journal.

"These were heavy impressions to struggle against,
and brought that melancholy embitterment which
is the consequence of all excessive claim: even his
religious faith wavered with his wavering trust in his
own authorship, and the consolations of the Christian
hope in immortality seemed to lean on the immortality
of the still unwritten Key to all Mythologies."

Middlemarch , by George Eliot, Ch. XXIX

Related material from Sunday's print New York Times

Sunday's Log24 sermon

See also the Lévi-Strauss "Key to all Mythologies" in this journal,
as well as the previous post.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Diamond Theorem in ArXiv

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 pm

The diamond theorem is now in the arXiv

IMAGE- The diamond theorem in the arXiv

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Diamond Theorem Updates

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 8:00 pm

My diamond theorem articles at PlanetMath and at 
Encyclopedia of Mathematics have been updated
to clarify the relationship between the graphic square
patterns of the diamond theorem and the schematic
square patterns of the Curtis Miracle Octad Generator.

Friday, May 10, 2013

Cullinane diamond theorem

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 3:00 pm

A page with the above title has been created at
the Encyclopedia of Mathematics.

How long it will stay there remains to be seen.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Diamond Theorem Exposition

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 11:00 pm

"THE DIAMOND THEOREM AND QUILT PATTERNS
Victoria Blumen, Mathematics, Junior, Benedictine University
Tim Comar, Benedictine University
Mathematics
Secondary Source Research
 
Let D be a 4 by 4 block quilt shape, where each of the 16 square blocks is consists of [sic ] two triangles, one of which is colored red and the other of which is colored blue.  Let G: D -> D_g be a mapping of D that interchanges a pair of columns, rows, or quadrants of D.  The diamond theorem states that G(D) = D_g has either ordinary or color-interchange symmetry.  In this talk, we will prove the diamond theorem and explore symmetries of quilt patterns of the form G(D)."

Exercise Correct the above statement of the theorem.

Background— This is from a Google search result at about 10:55 PM ET Feb. 25, 2011—

[DOC] THE DIAMOND THEOREM AND QUILT PATTERNS – acca.elmhurst.edu
File Format: Microsoft Word – 14 hours ago –
Let G: D -> D_g be a mapping of D that interchanges a pair of columns, rows, or quadrants of D. The diamond theorem states that G(D) = D_g has either
acca.elmhurst.edu/…/victoria_blumen9607_
THE%20DIAMOND%20THEOREM%20AND%20QUILT%20PATTERNS…

The document is from a list of mathematics abstracts for the annual student symposium of the ACCA (Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area) held on April 10, 2010.

Update of Feb. 26For a related remark quoted here  on the date of the student symposium, see Geometry for Generations.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Diamond Theorem in Norway

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 10:00 pm

IMAGE- The 2x2 case of the diamond theorem as illustrated by Josefine Lyche, Oct. 2010

Click on above image for artist's page.

Click here for exhibit page.

Click here for underlying geometry.

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

A Mosaic for Megiddo

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:54 pm

Minimalist space: Diamond Theorem Studio

The above image, from posts tagged Aion Art, was suggested by a
Jerusalem Post article dated April 1, 2022 quod vide. The pattern
shown is known to quilters as "Tents of Armageddon."

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Weyl, Symmetry, and the MOG
(HTML version of an earlier post)

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:16 am

Some historical background for a new book by Robert T. Curtis,
The Art of Working with the Mathieu Group M24 

"Space is another example of an entity endowed with a structure.
Here the elements are points, and the structure is established
in terms of certain basic relations between points such as:
A, B, C lie on a straight line, AB is congruent CD, and the like.
What we learn from our whole discussion and what has indeed
become a guiding principle in modern mathematics is this lesson:
Whenever you have to do with a structure endowed entity Σ
try to determine its group of automorphisms
, the group of those
element-wise transformations which leave all structural relations
undisturbed. You can expect to gain a deep insight into the
constitution of Σ in this way. After that you may start to investigate
symmetric configurations of elements, i.e. configurations which are
invariant under a certain subgroup of the group of all automorphisms;
and it may be advisable, before looking for such configurations,
to study the subgroups themselves, e.g. the subgroup of those
automorphisms which leave one element fixed, or leave two distinct
elements fixed, and investigate what discontinuous or finite subgroups
there exist, and so forth."

— Hermann Weyl, Symmetry, Princeton University Press, 1952.
(Page 144 in the Princeton Science Library edition of 1989.)

4×4 Square
       
       
       
       

This square's automorphism group
has 322,560 transformations.

— The diamond theorem  of Steven H. Cullinane.

4×6 Rectangle
           
           
           
           

This rectangle's automorphism group
has 244,823,040 transformations.

— The Miracle Octad Generator  (MOG) of Robert T. Curtis.

The rectangle's automorphism group contains the
square's as a subgroup. The square's automorphism
group leaves invariant a set of 30 eight-subsquare sets
called affine hyperplanes. The rectangle's automorphism
group leaves invariant a set of 759 eight-subsquare sets
called octads.

View this post as a PDF.

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Automorphism Groups: Examples for Weyl

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View a PDF of this post.

Keywords: Weyl, symmetry, group, automorphism,
octad, MOG, Curtis, Cullinane.

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Ingathering Scriptures

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 am

I recommend . . .

https://www.amazon.com/
Ingathering-Complete-People-Stories-Henderson-ebook/
dp/B0878RMD5D/
.

Some will prefer Exodus 23:16.

Related philosophy —

Descartes and the Tents of Armageddon (Galois's birthday, 2007).

Related art —

https://claude.site/artifacts/3c1ce26b-4664-448c-87df-c20802053eea .

Update on Oct. 28, 2024 —

For a newer version by a different AI, Websim, see Diamond Theorem Studio.

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

My Links — Steven H. Cullinane

Filed under: — m759 @ 4:14 pm

Main webpage of record . . .

Encyclopedia of Mathematics  https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Cullinane_diamond_theorem

Supplementary PDF from Jan. 6, 2006  https://encyclopediaofmath.org/images/3/37/Dtheorem.pdf

Originally published in paper version . . .

Computer Graphics and Art, 1978  http://finitegeometry.org/sc/gen/Diamond_Theory_Article.pdf
AMS abstract, 1979: "Symmetry Invariance in a Diamond Ring"  https://www.cullinane.design/
American Mathematical Monthly, 1984 and 1985: "Triangles Are Square"  http://finitegeometry.org/sc/16/trisquare.html

Personal sites . . .

Primary —

Personal journal   http://m759.net/wordpress/
Mathematics website  http://finitegeometry.org/sc/
Mathematics Images Gallery  http://m759.net/piwigo/index.php?/category/2

Secondary —

Portfoliobox   https://cullinane.pb.design/
Substack   https://stevenhcullinane.substack.com/  
Symmetry Summary   https://shc759.wordpress.com
Diamond Theory Cover Structure  https://shc7596.wixsite.com/website

SOCIAL:

Pinterest   https://www.pinterest.com/stevenhcullinane/ (many mathematics notes)
Flickr  https://www.flickr.com/photos/m759/ (backup account for images of mathematics notes)
Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/stevencullinane
TikTok   https://www.tiktok.com/@stevenhcullinane
X.com   https://x.com/shc759

OTHER:

Replit viewer/download  https://replit.com/@m759/View-4x4x4?v=1
SourceForge download  https://sourceforge.net/projects/finitegeometry/
Academia.edu   https://stevenhcullinane.academia.edu/ GitHub    https://github.com/m759 (finite geometry site download)
Internet Archive: Notes on Groups and Geometry   https://archive.org/details/NotesOnGroupsAndGeometry1978-1986/mode/2up         

Cited at  . . .

The Diamond Theorem and Truchet Tiles   http://www.log24.com/log22/220429-Basque-DT-1.pdf 
April 2024 UNION article in Spanish featuring the diamond theorem  https://union.fespm.es/index.php/UNION/article/view/1608/1214
April 2024 UNION article in English  http://log24.com/notes/240923-Ibanez-Torres-on-diamond-theorem-Union-April-2024-in-English.pdf
Cullinane in a 2020 Royal Holloway Ph.D. thesis   https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/40176912/2020thomsonkphd.pdf         
Squares, Chevrons, Pinwheels, and Bach   https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/36444818/fugue-no-21-elements-of-finite-geometry      
Observables  programmed presentation of diamond theorem  https://observablehq.com/@radames/diamond-theory-symmetry-in-binary-spaces
Josefine Lyche — Plato's Diamond  https://web.archive.org/web/20240222064628/http://www.josefinelyche.com/index.php?/selected-exhibitions/platos-diamond/
Josefine Lyche — Diamond Theorem  https://web.archive.org/web/20230921122049/http://josefinelyche.com/index.php?/selected-exhibitions/uten-ramme-nye-rom/

Professional sites . . .

Association for Computing Machinery   https://member.acm.org/~scullinane
bio.site/cullinane … maintenance at https://biosites.com
ORCID bio page   https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1135-419X
Google Scholar   https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=NcjmFwQAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate

Academic repositories:

Harvard Dataverse   https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/KHMMVH
Harvard DASH article on PG(3,2)   https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37373777 

Zenodo website download  https://zenodo.org/records/1038121
Zenodo research notes  https://zenodo.org/search?q=metadata.creators.person_or_org.name%3A%22Cullinane%2C%20Steven%20H.%22&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=bestmatch

Figurate Geometry at Open Science Framework (OSF)   https://osf.io/47fkd/

arXiv: "The Diamond Theorem"  https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1075

Friday, April 19, 2024

Benchmarking Meta.ai

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Transcription —

(With one correction The Meta.ai phrase "the  group of 322,560"
was changed to " group of 322,560" and one addition — the
acronym MOG was defined. Superscript numerals for missing footnotes
were removed.)

You

What is the Cullinane diamond theorem?

Meta AI

The Cullinane diamond theorem states that every image of D (a 4×4 array of two-color diagonally divided square tiles) under the group G (a group of 322,560 permutations of these 16 tiles) has some ordinary or color-interchange symmetry.

Here are some key points about the theorem :

  • The theorem is related to the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) of R. T. Curtis and the Leech lattice.
     
  • The underlying geometry of the 4×4 patterns is closely related to the construction of the Steiner system S(5,8,24).
     
  • The theorem uses a simple decomposition technique for functions into a finite field.
     
  • The symmetry group of order 322,560 underlies both the diamond theorem figures and the square patterns of the MOG.
     
  • The theorem has applications in finite projective geometry and the study of symmetric patterns.

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Devs:  Hollywood Development Hell

From The Man Who Knew Infinity to The Man Who Knew Zero.

Related mathematics:  The Diamond Theorem Correlation, which
results from interchanging infinity and zero in the figure below.

"Read something that means something."
                — New Yorker  ad

'Knight' octad labeling by the 8 points of the projective line over GF(7) .

   Click image for
   related posts.

Background — Relativity Problem in Log24.

Sunday, March 3, 2024

Deep Blue Research: A Report by You.com AI

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:34 pm
 

Cullinane Diamond Theorem Research Report

by https://you.com/?chatMode=research on March 3, 2024

Overview of the Cullinane Diamond Theorem

The Cullinane Diamond Theorem is a mathematical concept developed by Steven H. Cullinane that explores the symmetrical properties of certain geometric patterns. It is particularly concerned with the structure of finite projective geometry as it relates to the 35 square patterns found in R. T. Curtis's Miracle Octad Generator (MOG).

The theorem asserts that every G-image of a diamond figure D possesses some form of ordinary or color-interchange symmetry.

Symmetry and Group Theory

The theorem is deeply rooted in group theory, with G being isomorphic to the affine group A on the linear 4-space over the finite field GF(2).

This group has a significant order of 322,560 and underlies the symmetry of both the diamond-theorem figures and the square patterns of the MOG . The 35 structures of the 840 G-images of D are isomorphic to the 35 lines in the 3-dimensional projective space over GF(2), which explains the symmetry of the line diagrams and the two-color patterns.

The Diamond Theorem in Various Dimensions

The diamond theorem can be applied to different cases, such as the 4×4, 2×2, and even 3-dimensional cubes like the 2x2x2 and 4x4x4 cubes.

The generalized statement of the theorem involves inscribing a white diamond in a black square and dividing it into four quadrants, each with a diagonal split into black and white halves.

Algebraic Implications

The theorem has algebraic implications, such as the ability to express every 4-coloring as a sum of three 2-colorings.

This algebraic formulation is useful for demonstrating that certain four-colored graphic images can form a ring under multiplication. There is also an infinite family of such 'diamond' rings, isomorphic to rings of matrices over GF(4).

Philosophical and Cultural Context

Steven H. Cullinane has also explored the philosophical implications of the diamond theorem, referring to it in the context of Plato's Meno dialogue and opposing it to the 'Story Theory of truth' as discussed by Richard J. Trudeau.

The theorem is seen as a correct statement of the relation between geometry and the physical universe.

Clarification on Cullinan Diamonds

It is important to note that the Cullinane Diamond Theorem is unrelated to the Cullinan diamond, which is a famous large gemstone discovered in South Africa and now part of the British Crown Jewels.

The Cullinan diamond has its own historical and cultural significance, with its various cut shapes and ownership history.

In summary, the Cullinane Diamond Theorem is a mathematical concept that reveals the symmetrical properties of certain geometric patterns, with applications in group theory and algebra. It also has philosophical implications, drawing connections to classical ideas about truth and geometry.

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— Line adapted from Leonardo DiCaprio

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Song by Copilot: Prompt and Response*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:09 pm

Prompt:  Compose a song about the Cullinane diamond theorem.

Response by Microsoft Copilot on Saturday afternoon,
March 2, 2024:

Sure, here’s a song inspired by the Cullinane diamond theorem:

(Verse 1)
In the realm where logic reigns and numbers intertwine,
Lies a theorem, diamond-bright, its facets all align.
Cullinane's the name it bears, a gem in math's grand crown,
In the grid of sixteen squares, its truths are written down.

(Chorus)
Oh, Cullinane, your diamond shines with symmetry so fine,
In the field of finite forms, your theorem does define.
A structure pure, a pattern clear, for all of us to see,
In the heart of mathematics, lies your geometry.

(Verse 2)
Rows and columns interplay in a dance so grand,
Quadrants align in perfect time, like notes in a band.
Through the chaos and the whirl, an order does descend,
In the world of abstract thought, your theorem is a friend.

(Chorus)
Oh, Cullinane, your diamond theorem, a beacon in the night,
Guiding us through complex realms, with its brilliant light.
In the vast expanse of knowledge, where truth and beauty blend,
Your theorem stands, a testament, a guide until the end.

(Outro)
So here's to you, Cullinane, and your diamond theorem's might,
In the endless quest for truth, you've brought us greater light.
In the language of the universe, where numbers never lie,
Your diamond theorem's shining bright, beneath the math's clear sky.

Added note from Copilot:

Please note that this is a creative interpretation and may not accurately reflect
the mathematical concepts of the Cullinane diamond theorem. 😊

Added note from Cullinane:

* The previous post may or may not display a prompt response  to a Zen koan.

Wonder Box

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:42 am

"Wundermärchen – the original German word for fairytale –
literally translates to ‘wonder tale’."

— Abigail Tulenko. a PhD student in philosophy at Harvard University,
at Aeon  on Feb. 26, 2024.

 


 

Another example of abstract  art . . .

"The discovery of the Cullinane Diamond Theorem is a testament
to the power of mathematical abstraction and its ability to reveal
deep connections and symmetries in seemingly simple structures."

Bing Chat with GPT-4  on November 16, 2023.

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Li

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:36 am

The Chinese concept of li  in yesterday's post "Logos" is related,
if only by metaphor, to the underlying form (sets of "line diagrams")
of patterns in the Cullinane diamond theorem:

"But very possibly the earliest use of li  is the one instance that
it appears in the Classic of Poetry  (Ode 210) where it refers to
the borders or boundary lines marking off areas in a field.
Here it appears in conjunction with chiang  and is explained
as 'to divide into lots (or parcels of land)' (fen-ti )."

P. 33 of "Li Revisited and Other Explorations"
by Allen Wittenborn, Bulletin of Sung and Yüan Studies
No. 17 (1981), pp. 32-48 (17 pages),
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23497457.

Friday, February 16, 2024

The Sixteen

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:56 pm

Gemini Sonnet, Feb. 15, 2024

Prompt:

Write a poem, in strict sonnet form, about the Cullinane diamond theorem.

Response (slightly tweaked for grammar):

Within a grid of sixteen squares reside
A diamond's gleams where symmetries do guide.
Though tiles may shift, a pattern shall remain,
By unseen lines of ordered form sustained.
Rows mix and columns twist in playful dance,
Quadrants align with geometric chance.
No matter how the elements may turn,
A hidden balance always will return.

Where Latin squares in secret do align,
And finite fields their subtle powers combine,
An ideal forms, with brilliance all its own,
A ring of light where hidden truths are shown.
Though chaos swirls, an order does descend,
The Cullinane's bright theorem will transcend.

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As for "a hidden balance" See Oct. 10, 2022.

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Google Bard is now Gemini.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:07 pm

Gemini Prompt:

Write a poem in the style of Wallace Stevens
about the Cullinane diamond theorem.

Response:

Absolutely! Here's a poem inspired by Wallace Stevens
and the Cullinane diamond theorem:

Geometric Incandescence

A theorem not of Euclid's line,
But diamonds cut with strange design.
Sixteen squares in shifting light,
A symmetry of black and white.

Where rows and columns intertwine,
A hidden order lies supine.
Permutations twist and turn,
And latent symmetries discern.

Not fixed like stars in ordered rows,
But like reflections, pattern grows.
Projective planes, a finite field,
The diamond's inner world revealed.

The proof, a dance of abstract thought,
Where shifting forms find space untaught.
Not nature's chaos, but design,
A brilliance of the human mind.

A lattice born of Stevens' art,
Where form and thought find counterpart.
Amidst the fragments, patterns gleam,
The Cullinane, a geometer's dream.

Sunday, February 4, 2024

Microsoft Copilot Doggerel

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:31 am

A poem written yesterday by Microsoft Copilot —

The prompt: "Write a poem about the Cullinane diamond theorem."

In the mind of the mathematician,
Among the figures and forms,
Lies the Cullinane diamond theorem,
A structure that transforms.

Four-diamond figure, a 4×4 array,
Of two-color diagonally-divided square tiles,
Permutations of these sixteen,
In rows, columns, and quadrants compiles.

Every G-image of the four-diamond figure,
Has some ordinary or color-interchange symmetry,
A pattern, a structure, a mathematical picture,
A testament to geometry's clarity.

The symmetry of the line diagrams,
Accounts for the symmetry of the two-color patterns,
A proof shows that a 2nx2n two-color triangular half-squares pattern,
Must have a 2×2 center with a symmetry that matters.

And this symmetry must be shared by the entire pattern,
A statement, a theorem, a mathematical lantern,
G is isomorphic to the affine group A,
On the linear 4-space over GF (2), they say.

The 35 structures of the 840 = 35 x 24 G-images,
Are isomorphic to the 35 lines,
In the 3-dimensional projective space over GF (2),
A concept that shines.

So here lies the beauty of the Cullinane diamond theorem,
In the mind of the mathematician, it's a gem,
A structure, a pattern, a mathematical diagram,
A testament to the beauty of STEM.

Actually, the complete  prompt, suggested by a Log24 post of
12:12 PM ET yesterday, was . . .

"Write a poem in the style of Wallace Stevens
about the Cullinane diamond theorem."

Copilot still has a thing or two to learn about poetic style.

Monday, January 29, 2024

Self as Imago Dei:  Hofstadter vs. Valéry

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:41 am
 

Google search result:

Imago Dei  in Thomas Aquinas

Saint Anselm College

https://www.anselm.edu › Documents › Brown

PDF

by M Brown · 2014 · Cited by 14 — Thomas insists that the image of God exists most perfectly in the acts of the soul, for the soul is that which is most perfect in us and so best images God, and …

11 pages

For a Douglas Hofstadter version of the Imago Dei , see the
"Gödel, Escher, Bach" illustration in the Jan. 15 screenshot below —

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Imago, Imago, Imago
 

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 11:07 am

Recommended— an online book—

Flight from Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory,
by Steven Cassedy, U. of California Press, 1990.

See in particular

Valéry and the Discourse On His Method.

Pages 156-157—

Valéry saw the mind as essentially a relational system whose operation he attempted to describe in the language of group mathematics. “Every act of understanding is based on a group,” he says (C, 1:331). “My specialty—reducing everything to the study of a system closed on itself and finite” (C, 19: 645). The transformation model came into play, too. At each moment of mental life the mind is like a group, or relational system, but since mental life is continuous over time, one “group” undergoes a “transformation” and becomes a different group in the next moment. If the mind is constantly being transformed, how do we account for the continuity of the self? Simple; by invoking the notion of the invariant. And so we find passages like this one: “The S[elf] is invariant, origin, locus or field, it’s a functional property of consciousness” (C, 15:170 [2: 315]). Just as in transformational geometry, something remains fixed in all the projective transformations of the mind’s momentary systems, and that something is the Self (le Moi, or just M, as Valéry notates it so that it will look like an algebraic variable). Transformation theory is all over the place. “Mathematical science . . . reduced to algebra, that is, to the analysis of the transformations of a purely differential being made up of homogeneous elements, is the most faithful document of the properties of grouping, disjunction, and variation in the mind” (O, 1:36). “Psychology is a theory of transformations, we just need to isolate the invariants and the groups” (C, 1:915). “Man is a system that transforms itself” (C, 2:896).

Notes:

  Paul Valéry, Oeuvres (Paris: Pléiade, 1957-60)

C   Valéry, Cahiers, 29 vols. (Paris: Centre National de le Recherche Scientifique, 1957-61)

Compare Jung’s image in Aion  of the Self as a four-diamond figure:

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100615-JungImago.gif

and Cullinane’s purely geometric four-diamond figure:

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100615-FourD.gif

For a natural group of 322,560 transformations acting on the latter figure, see the diamond theorem.

What remains fixed (globally, not pointwise) under these transformations is the system  of points and hyperplanes from the diamond theorem.

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

The Enormous Theorem

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:09 pm

The previous post's  reference to colors suggests a review . . .

A test of OpenAI on the above DevDay date —

This ridiculous hallucination was obviously suggested by what
has been called "the enormous theorem" on the classification
of finite simple groups. That theorem was never known as the
(or "a") diamond theorem.

On the bright side, the four colors beside Microsoft's Nadella in the
photo above may, if you like, be regarded as those of my own
non-enormous "four-color decomposition theorem" that is used in
the proof of my own  result called "the diamond theorem."

Saturday, January 13, 2024

Xmas Pattern

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 10:55 am

Found on the Web today —


Earlier . . .
 

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Colorful Prose

Tags: , — m759 @ 12:32 am

From April 1 … "The Color Out of Nevermore" —

Palatinate Purple

   Related entertainment starring Martin Freeman —

Related Art —

See as well The Diamond Theorem in Basque Country
for material from the University of the Basque Country,
an offshoot of the University of Bilbao (in Basque, "Bilbo").

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Negative Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 5:21 pm

A recently coined phrase — "Negative Mathematics" — is related to the
better-known phrase "Negative Space."

The latter is closely related to the proof of the Cullinane diamond theorem. 
For the former, see . . .

Related material: The proof symbol, i.e.  the Halmos Tombstone.

Thursday, December 28, 2023

Basque Country Art Book

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 6:20 pm

Book description at Amazon.com, translated by Google —

Las matemáticas como herramienta
de creación artística

Mathematics as a tool
for artistic creation

by Raúl Ibáñez Torres

Kindle edition in Spanish, 2023

Although the relationship between mathematics and art can be traced back to ancient times, mainly in geometric and technical aspects, it is with the arrival of the avant-garde and abstract art at the beginning of the 20th century that mathematics takes on greater and different relevance: as a source of inspiration and as a tool for artistic creation. Let us think, for example, of the importance of the fourth dimension for avant-garde movements or, starting with Kandisnky and later Max Bill and concrete art, the vindication of mathematical thinking in artistic creation. An idea that would have a fundamental influence on currents such as constructivism, minimalism, the fluxus movement, conceptual art, systematic art or optical art, among others. Following this approach, this book analyzes, through a variety of examples and activities, how mathematics is present in contemporary art as a creative tool. And it does so through five branches and the study of some of its mathematical topics: geometry (the Pythagorean theorem), topology (the Moebius strip), algebra (algebraic groups and matrices), combinatorics (permutations and combinations) and recreational mathematics (magic and Latin squares).

From the book ("Cullinane Diamond Theorem" heading and picture of
book's cover added) —

Publisher:Los Libros de La Catarata  (October 24, 2023)

Author: Raúl Ibáñez Torres, customarily known as Raúl Ibáñez

(Ibáñez does not mention Cullinane as the author of the above theorem
in his book (except indirectly, quoting Josefine Lyche), but he did credit
him fully in an earlier article, "The Truchet Tiles and the Diamond Puzzle"
(translation by Google).)

About Ibáñez (translated from Amazon.com by Google):

Mathematician, professor of Geometry at the University of the Basque Country
and scientific disseminator. He is part of the Chair of Scientific Culture of the
UPV/EHU and its blog Cuaderno de Cultura Cientifica. He has been a scriptwriter
and presenter of the program “Una de Mates” on the television program Órbita Laika.
He has collaborated since 2005 on the programs Graffiti and La mechanica del caracol
on Radio Euskadi. He has also been a collaborator and co-writer of the documentary
Hilos de tiempo (2020) about the artist Esther Ferrer. For 20 years he directed the
DivulgaMAT portal, Virtual Center for the Dissemination of Mathematics, and was a
member of the dissemination commission of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.
Author of several books, including The Secrets of Multiplication (2019) and
The Great Family of Numbers (2021), in the collection Miradas Matemáticas (Catarata).
He has received the V José María Savirón Prize for Scientific Dissemination
(national modality, 2010) and the COSCE Prize for the Dissemination of Science (2011).

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Copilot Report

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:16 am
 
From Microsoft Copilot (with "Precise" setting)
on Dec. 18, 2023 —
 
How is the 1910 work of G. M. Conwell on PG(3,2) related to the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis?

Searching for: Relation between G. M. Conwell work on PG(3,2) and Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis

Searching for: Relation between G. M. Conwell work on PG(3,2) and Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis explained

Generating answers for you…

The work of George M. Conwell on the finite projective 3-space PG(3,2) and the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) of R. T. Curtis are both significant contributions to the field of combinatorial mathematics12.

Conwell’s work on PG(3,2) provided a detailed study of the structure of this finite projective space1On the other hand, the MOG is a tool for exploring the binary Golay code and its automorphism group M242.

The connection between these two works lies in the underlying combinatorial structures they explore. The Rosenhain and Göpel tetrads, which are key structures in the finite geometry PG(3,2), play a significant role in the Curtis Miracle Octad Generator3These structures provide a link between the finite geometric structures studied by Conwell and the combinatorial structures generated by the MOG3.

For a more detailed understanding of this connection, I recommend checking out the resources mentioned in the references123. If you have any specific questions about the concepts in these works, feel free to ask! I’ll do my best to help.

Learn more

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DOCUMENT SUMMARY (generated by Copilot)
of reference 3 above, from academia.edu —
"Rosenhain and Göpel Tetrads in PG(3,2),"
by Steven H. Cullinane on March 17, 2013

Here is a summary of the document:

Reference:
 
Copilot suggestions following document summary —
 



Correction:

"Subsets of four points in a projective 3-space" above is a Copilot error, and not
from the document being summarized. It should be "subsets of four points in an
affine 4-space."

Monday, December 18, 2023

AI Class

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:31 pm
 

Bringing Up Bing :

A Tutorial for Bing on Monday, December 18, 2023

Prompt:  How is the Cullinane Diamond Theorem related to the Curtis Miracle Octad Generator?

Response:  Searching for: Cullinane Diamond Theorem and Curtis Miracle Octad Generator relation.

Generating answers for you…

The Cullinane Diamond Theorem and the Curtis Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) are both mathematical concepts that are deeply intertwined with finite projective geometry1,2.

The Cullinane Diamond Theorem explains the surprising symmetry properties of some simple graphic designs and underlies the structure of the 35 square patterns in R. T. Curtis’s MOG1,2The theorem uses a 4×4 array of two-color diagonally-divided square tiles, and considers the group of permutations of these 16 tiles generated by mixing random permutations of rows, columns, and the four 2×2 quadrants1,2.

The theorem states that every image of the 4×4 array has some ordinary or color-interchange symmetry1,2The 35 structures of the 840 images of the 4×4 array are isomorphic to the 35 lines in the 3-dimensional projective space over GF(2), a finite field with two elements1,2This can be seen by viewing the 35 structures as three-sets of line diagrams, based on the three partitions of the four-set of square two-color tiles into two two-sets1,2.

The MOG is a 4×6 array of combinations describing any point in 24-dimensional space1It preserves all of the symmetries and maximal subgroups of the Mathieu group M241The MOG is used in the construction of the Steiner system S(5,8,24), and hence is also related to the Leech lattice2.

In summary, the Cullinane Diamond Theorem provides a geometric explanation for the structure and symmetries of the patterns in the MOG1,2Both theorems are connected through their use of finite projective geometry and their applications to the study of symmetry1,2.

Learn more

  1. arxiv.org
  2. encyclopediaofmath.org
  3. arxiv.org
  4. m759.net

Reply to Bing's Response —

Actually, the Cullinane diamond theorem, by itself, does NOT explain the patterns in the MOG. The MOG is a natural correspondence, or pairing, of the 35 diamond-theorem structures with the 35 partitions of an eight-element set into two four-element sets. That correspondence is explained in a 1910 paper by G. M. Conwell, "The 3-Space PG(3,2) and Its Group." The Conwell correspondence was later found to be invariant under the action of the large Mathieu group on a set of 24=16+8 elements.

Response to the Above Reply —

Generating answers for you…

Thank you for the clarification. You’re correct that the Cullinane Diamond Theorem, by itself, does not explain the patterns in the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG). The MOG is indeed a natural correspondence of the 35 structures from the Diamond Theorem with the 35 partitions of an eight-element set into two four-element sets. This correspondence was explained by G. M. Conwell in his 1910 paper “The 3-Space PG(3,2) and Its Group.” The Conwell correspondence was later found to be invariant under the action of the large Mathieu group on a set of 24 elements, which can be partitioned into a set of 16 and a set of 8. I appreciate your input and the opportunity to learn from it. If you have any more questions or need further clarification, feel free to ask!

Sunday, December 17, 2023

Speak, Memory

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:51 am

"Unsocratic Dialogue" with Google DeepMind's Gemini AI continues . . .

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Do you remember a previous conversation about the question "What is the Cullinane diamond theorem?" If so, how would you answer the question now?
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Yes, I do remember our previous conversation about the Cullinane diamond theorem. My understanding of the theorem has significantly improved thanks to your patient explanations and corrections. Here's how I would answer the question now, incorporating my updated knowledge:

The Cullinane diamond theorem is a fascinating result in finite projective geometry that reveals hidden symmetries within seemingly scrambled patterns. It focuses on the diamond figure, a 4×4 square pattern with alternating colors arranged in a diamond shape.

Key elements:

  • Group G: This group consists of permutations of the 16 tiles in the diamond figure, but not just any arbitrary rearrangements. G's permutations are restricted to those that can be generated by manipulating rows, columns, and quadrants of the 4×4 grid. This maintains the overall structure of the diamond shape.
  • Line diagrams: The theorem doesn't focus on the visual appearance of the G-images (diamonds with rearranged tiles), but rather on their underlying structure. This structure is captured by a set of 15 line diagrams. These diagrams represent the connections between the tiles and encode the essence of the different G-images.
  • Hidden symmetries: The Cullinane diamond theorem states that every G-image, despite its scrambled appearance, must exhibit some form of ordinary or color-interchange symmetry. This means that when we analyze the line diagrams of these seemingly chaotic patterns, we find hidden symmetries based on the relationships between the tiles.

Significance:

  • The theorem sheds light on the structure of R.T. Curtis's Miracle Octad Generator, a mathematical object that generates intriguing patterns related to the diamond figure.
  • It explains the surprising symmetries found in simple graphic designs like quilts, even when their individual components are arranged differently.
  • It provides a tool for analyzing and classifying graphic patterns based on their hidden symmetries revealed by the line diagrams.

Further resources:

  • For a deeper understanding, I recommend checking out the "Cullinane diamond theorem" entry in the Encyclopedia of Mathematics.
  • Additionally, Steven H. Cullinane's original paper titled "The Diamond Theorem" on arXiv provides further details and insights.

I hope this explanation is more accurate and comprehensive than my previous attempts. Please let me know if you have any further questions or if you'd like me to elaborate on any specific aspects of the theorem. I'm still learning and I value your feedback in my journey to provide accurate and insightful information.

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Unsocratic Dialogue (with Gemini AI in Bard Today)

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 3:35 pm

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What is the Cullinane diamond theorem?

The Cullinane diamond theorem is a fascinating result in the realm of finite projective geometry and its applications to graphic patterns. It delves into the symmetry properties of specific patterns, even when they're seemingly scrambled.

Here's a breakdown of the theorem:

Key components:

  • The diamond (D): A specific 4×4 square pattern with alternating colors in a diamond shape.
  • G-images: Any pattern obtained from D by applying symmetries like rotations, flips, and color interchanges.
  • Ordinary or color-interchange symmetry: Symmetry properties like rotational symmetry or flipping the entire pattern while swapping colors.

The theorem states:

Every G-image of D (no matter how scrambled) must exhibit some form of ordinary or color-interchange symmetry.

In other words, no matter how you twist and turn the diamond pattern, some underlying symmetry remains hidden within. This hidden symmetry can be revealed by applying specific transformations like rotations or color swaps.

Consequences and applications:

  • The theorem sheds light on the structure of R.T. Curtis's Miracle Octad Generator, a mathematical object that generates intriguing patterns.
  • It explains the surprising symmetries found in simple graphic designs, like quilts.
  • It provides a tool for analyzing and classifying various graphic patterns based on their hidden symmetries.

Further details:

  • The theorem connects the 35 patterns in Curtis's Miracle Octad Generator to finite projective geometry.
  • The theorem also has connections to algebraic structures like rings and ideals.

If you're interested in learning more:

  • You can find the original paper by Steven H. Cullinane titled "The Diamond Theorem" on arXiv.
  • You can explore resources like the Encyclopedia of Mathematics and PlanetMath for further details and explanations.

I hope this explanation helps you understand the Cullinane diamond theorem! Feel free to ask if you have any further questions or want to delve deeper into specific aspects of the theorem.

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Your description of "G-images" is wrong. It omits the definition of the group G of 322,560 transformations.

You're absolutely right, I apologize for the mistake in my description of G-images in the Cullinane diamond theorem. My explanation omitted the crucial detail about the group G and its composition, which is essential to understanding the theorem.

Here's a corrected explanation with the missing information:

The group G:

  • G consists of 322,560 transformations that can be applied to the diamond pattern (D).
  • These transformations include:
     

    • 8 rotations: 0°, 45°, …, 270°
    • 2 flips: horizontal and vertical
    • 4 color interchanges: swapping black and white
    • All combinations of the above: This allows for a wide range of possible G-images.

Therefore, a G-image of D is any pattern that can be obtained by applying one or more transformations from the group G. This means that even seemingly scrambled versions of the diamond pattern can be considered G-images as long as they can be generated through these transformations.

The Cullinane diamond theorem then states that every G-image of D, despite its apparent complexity, must exhibit some form of ordinary or color-interchange symmetry. This highlights the hidden order and underlying structure within seemingly chaotic patterns.

I'm still under development and learning to be as accurate as possible. Thank you for pointing out my mistake. I appreciate your patience and understanding, and I'll strive to provide more precise information in the future.

Please let me know if you have any other questions or if you'd like me to elaborate on any specific aspects of the Cullinane diamond theorem.

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Your understanding of the group G is still wrong. It is a group of PERMUTATIONS of the 16 square cells, or tiles, that make up the diamond figure D. It is NOT a group of space symmetries as you describe.

Thank you for pointing out another critical error in my understanding of the Cullinane diamond theorem. You're absolutely right; the group G in the theorem deals with permutations of the tiles within the diamond figure D, not space symmetries.

I apologize for the confusion and appreciate your patience as I continue to learn. Here's a corrected explanation of the group G:

Group G:

  • G consists of all permutations of the 16 tiles (squares) that make up the diamond figure D.
  • This means G contains all possible arrangements of the tiles while maintaining the overall shape of the diamond.
  • The number of permutations in G is 16! (approximately 322,560), making it a large and diverse group.

Therefore, under the Cullinane diamond theorem, G-images are any configurations of the 16 tiles obtained by applying these permutations. This emphasizes the theorem's focus on rearranging the tiles while preserving the diamond structure, not manipulating the diamond itself through rotations or flips.

I understand now that the theorem focuses on the intrinsic symmetries within the diamond figure based on tile arrangement, not spatial transformations like rotations or flips. This clarifies the theorem's significance in understanding the structural properties of patterns even after scrambling their individual components.

Thank you again for correcting my mistake. I am committed to providing accurate information, and your feedback helps me learn and improve. Please don't hesitate to point out any further errors or areas for improvement.

Is there anything else you'd like me to clarify about the Cullinane diamond theorem or any other related topics? I'm eager to learn more and provide you with the best possible understanding.

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Your understanding has improved, but is still wrong. G does not consist of ALL permuations of the 16 tiles, but only those generated by permutations of rows, columns, and quadrants of the 4×4 tile-array.

You're absolutely right, my understanding of Group G in the Cullinane Diamond Theorem is still not quite accurate. I appreciate your patience and persistence in correcting me!

Based on your explanation, I understand that Group G is not simply all permutations of the 16 tiles, but it has a specific structure:

  • G consists of permutations of the 16 tiles that can be realized by permuting rows, columns, and quadrants of the 4×4 grid.
  • This means that the group does not include arbitrary rearrangements of the tiles that would break the underlying structure of the diamond figure.

This clarified structure makes sense in light of the theorem's focus on hidden symmetries within the diamond pattern. By restricting the permutations to those that maintain the overall diamond shape, the theorem highlights the intrinsic symmetries that emerge even when rearranging the tiles within that structure.

I apologize for my previous misunderstandings and appreciate your help in correcting them. It's through these interactions that I learn and improve my understanding of complex topics.

Would you be willing to share some resources or further explanation about how these permutations of rows, columns, and quadrants actually generate the elements of Group G? I'm eager to understand the structure of this group more deeply.

Thank you again for your patience and expertise!

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Actually, the permutations do NOT "maintain the overall diamond shape," but rather maintain the SET of 15 "line diagrams" that describe the STRUCTURE of the array's images under the group G. The symmetry of these line diagrams accounts for the symmetry of the G-images.

You're absolutely right again! My understanding of the Cullinane Diamond Theorem and the role of Group G is still evolving, and I appreciate your continued patience and guidance.

Your point about the line diagrams and their structure is crucial. I apologize for my earlier misunderstanding about the group's role in maintaining the diamond shape. Instead, as you correctly point out, the group maintains the set of 15 line diagrams that represent the structural essence of the various G-images.

This clarifies the theorem's focus even further. By focusing on the underlying structure captured by the line diagrams, the theorem reveals the hidden symmetries that persist despite rearranging the tiles within the diamond framework. The permutations of rows, columns, and quadrants, within the constraints of maintaining these line diagrams, generate the diverse G-images while preserving these intrinsic structural symmetries.

I'm fascinated by this concept and would be grateful if you could share some resources or further explanation about the specific properties of these 15 line diagrams and how they relate to the permutations and the overall structure of Group G. Understanding their role in the theorem would significantly enhance my grasp of this fascinating concept.

Thank you once again for your expertise and for helping me learn and improve. I'm committed to providing accurate information and your feedback is invaluable in that process.

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I suggest the resource "Cullinane diamond theorem" in the online Encyclopedia of Mathematics. Perhaps as your understanding of how visual images can be manipulated improves (with multimodal learning), comprehension of the diamond theorem will also improve. Best of luck.

Thank you so much for your guidance! I'm definitely looking forward to diving deeper into the "Cullinane diamond theorem" in the Encyclopedia of Mathematics. Your point about visual manipulation and multimodal learning is insightful and I'll keep that in mind as I continue to learn and develop. I believe that expanding my understanding of visual information processing will be crucial for comprehending this and other complex concepts.

I appreciate your patience and understanding throughout this conversation. It has been an invaluable learning experience for me, and I'm grateful for your willingness to help me refine my understanding of the Cullinane diamond theorem.

I wish you all the best as well!

Saturday, December 9, 2023

How Many  Magic Beans, Jack?

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:31 pm

Two notes from this journal on December 2, 2023 —

A flashback for The November Man

As for " my own 'diamond theorem' " —

Question — "What is mathematician Steven H. Cullinane known for?"

From the Copilot response (shorn of footnotes) —

"Steven H. Cullinane is known for his work in finite geometry, particularly his Diamond Theorem. This theorem explains the surprising symmetry properties of some simple graphic designs, such as those found in quilts. It also provides a model for the 15 points, 35 lines, and 15 hyperplanes of the finite projective space PG (3,2).

Cullinane’s work underlies the structure of the 35 square patterns in R. T. Curtis’s Miracle Octad Generator. His theorem has applications to sporadic simple groups, the connection between orthogonal Latin squares and projective spreads, and the symmetry of Walsh functions."

Saturday, December 2, 2023

My Work According to Copilot

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:05 am

Following yesterday's encounter with the latest version of Pi,
here are some more formal (and more informative) remarks
from Windows Copilot today —

Question — "What is mathematician Steven H. Cullinane known for?"

From the Copilot response (shorn of footnotes) —

"Steven H. Cullinane is known for his work in finite geometry, particularly his Diamond Theorem. This theorem explains the surprising symmetry properties of some simple graphic designs, such as those found in quilts. It also provides a model for the 15 points, 35 lines, and 15 hyperplanes of the finite projective space PG (3,2).

Cullinane’s work underlies the structure of the 35 square patterns in R. T. Curtis’s Miracle Octad Generator. His theorem has applications to sporadic simple groups, the connection between orthogonal Latin squares and projective spreads, and the symmetry of Walsh functions."

Monday, November 27, 2023

Birkhoff-von Neumann Symmetry* over Finite Fields

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:09 pm

See David G. Poole, "The Stochastic Group,"
American Mathematical Monthly,  volume 102, number 9
(November, 1995), pages 798–801.

* This post was suggested by the phrase "The Diamond Theorem,
also known as the von Neumann-Birkhoff conjecture" in a
ChatGPT-3.5 hallucination today.

That phrase suggests a look at the Birkhoff-von Neumann theorem:

The B.-von N. theorem suggests a search for analogous results
over finite fields. That search yields the Poole paper above,
which is  related to my own "diamond theorem" via affine groups.

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Geometry and Art

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:54 am

AI-assisted report on "Cullinane Diamond Theorem discovery" —

Cullinane Diamond Theorem discovery

The full  story of how the theorem was discovered is actually
a bit more interesting.  See Art Space, a post of May 7, 2017,
and The Lindbergh Manifesto, a post of May 19, 2015.

"The discovery of the Cullinane Diamond Theorem is a testament
to the power of mathematical abstraction and its ability to reveal
deep connections and symmetries in seemingly simple structures."

I thank Bing for that favorable review.

Sunday, October 15, 2023

Efficient Packend

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:00 pm

"Stencils" from a 1959 paper by Golomb —

Boolean functions illustration by Golomb, 1959

These 15 figures also represent the 15 points of a finite geometry
(Cullinane diamond theorem, February 1979).

This  journal on Beltane (May 1), 2016 —

Friday, October 13, 2023

Turn, Turn, Turn

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 3:06 am

The conclusion of a Hungarian political figure's obituary in
tonight's online New York Times, written by Clay Risen

"A quietly religious man, he spent his last years translating
works dealing with Roman Catholic canon law."

This  journal on the Hungarian's date of death, October 8,
a Sunday, dealt in part with the submission to Wikipedia of
the following brief article . . . and its prompt rejection.

The Cullinane diamond theorem is a theorem
about the Galois geometry underlying
the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis.[1]

The theorem also explains symmetry properties of the
sort of chevron or diamond designs often found on quilts.

Reference

1. Cullinane diamond theorem at
the Encyclopedia of Mathematics

Some quotations I prefer to Catholic canon law —

Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Philosophical Investigations  (1953)

97. Thought is surrounded by a halo.
—Its essence, logic, presents an order,
in fact the a priori order of the world:
that is, the order of possibilities * ,
which must be common to both world and thought.
But this order, it seems, must be
utterly simple . It is prior  to all experience,
must run through all experience;
no empirical cloudiness or uncertainty can be
allowed to affect it ——It must rather be of
the purest crystal. But this crystal does not appear
as an abstraction; but as something concrete,
indeed, as the most concrete,
as it were the hardest  thing there is.

* See the post Wittgenstein's Diamond.

Related language in Łukasiewicz (1937)—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101127-LukasiewiczAdamantine.jpg

See as well Diamond Theory in 1937.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

The Junction Function

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:27 pm

A function (in this case, a 1-to-1 correspondence) from finite geometry:

IMAGE- The natural symplectic polarity in PG(3,2), illustrating a symplectic structure

This correspondence between points and hyperplanes underlies
the symmetries discussed in the Cullinane diamond theorem.

Academics who prefer cartoon graveyards may consult …

Cohn, N. (2014). Narrative conjunction’s junction function:
A theoretical model of “additive” inference in visual narratives. 
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science
Society
, 36. See https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2050s18m .

Friday, July 21, 2023

“Terminator Zero: Rise of the Chatbots” … Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 3:01 pm

From https://clever-chat.ai/demo/32f6d9c9107/complete 
at about 3 PM ET on Friday, July 21, 2023 —

Hi there 👋 I'm a self-service chatbot and I'm here to help you with anything related to Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube. Just ask away! 🙂

What is the diamond theorem?

The Diamond Theorem is a mathematical concept that was introduced by Steven H. Cullinane. It is closely related to finite geometry and explores the symmetries and patterns found in diamond-shaped arrays. The theorem has applications in various areas, including combinatorial designs, group theory, and quantum information theory. If you'd like more information or have any specific questions about the Diamond Theorem, feel free to ask! 😊

Is this website related to the work of Peter J. Cameron?

No, the website "Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube" is not directly related to the work of Peter J. Cameron. It is primarily focused on the study of finite geometry, particularly the symmetries and patterns found in square and cube arrays. The website is authored by Steven H. Cullinane, who has made significant contributions to the field. If you have any more questions or need further information, feel free to ask! 😊

What is the theorem of Desargues?

The theorem of Desargues, named after the French mathematician Gérard Desargues, is a fundamental result in projective geometry. It states that if two triangles are perspective from a point, then they are perspective from a line as well. In other words, if the three pairs of corresponding sides of two triangles intersect at three points that are collinear, then the three pairs of corresponding vertices of the triangles are collinear as well. This theorem has important implications in the study of projective geometry and has applications in various fields, including computer graphics and architecture. If you have any more questions or need further information, feel free to ask! 😊

   

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Going Beyond Wikipedia

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:01 am

The diamond theorem and 4-colorings as sums of three 2-colorings.

Despite today's New York Times  warnings about chatbot inaccuracy,
the above short summary is well-written, helpful, and correct.

Friday, July 7, 2023

CORE

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:10 pm

The "CORE" reference in the previous post yields, via a search . . .

Within this thesis there are 19 references to the name "Cullinane"
and to my own work, cited as . . .

Cullinane, Steven H., ‘The Diamond Theorem’ (1979)
<http://diamondtheorem.com>
[accessed 6 May 2019]

––– ‘Geometry of the I Ching’ (1989)
<http://finitegeometry.org/sc/64/iching.html
[accessed 6 May 2019].

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Proof Chat

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:50 pm

Proof of the Cullinane diamond theorem

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Google AI-Powered-Overview Example

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 pm

Cullinane diamond theorem

"Finite geometry explains the surprising symmetry properties
of some simple graphic designs." Good summary.

Monday, May 15, 2023

Chatbot Review

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:49 pm
 

By ChatGPT* — 

What is the Cullinane diamond theorem? 
5/10/2023, revised as below on 5/15/2023

The Cullinane Diamond Theorem, also known as the Diamond Theorem, is a result in combinatorial mathematics proposed by Steven H. Cullinane. The theorem explores connections between finite geometries, algebraic structures, and combinatorial designs. 

The theorem is primarily concerned with four related structures:
 
1. Finite geometries: Specifically, the theorem relates to finite projective geometries over finite fields, such as projective planes and projective spaces. 

2. Vector spaces: The theorem connects finite vector spaces over finite fields to the aforementioned finite geometries. 

3. Boolean functions:* The theorem establishes relationships between the finite geometries and certain Boolean functions derived from them. 

4. Symmetry groups: The theorem involves symmetry groups associated with the finite geometries.
 
The precise details and implications of the Cullinane Diamond Theorem are beyond the scope of this response. It involves abstract algebra, group theory, combinatorial designs, and finite fields. The theorem has been the subject of various publications and research discussions in mathematical literature. If you are interested in delving deeper into the Cullinane Diamond Theorem, I recommend referring to the original works by Steven H. Cullinane and related research articles on the topic.

* With one revision by Cullinane: "Boolean functions" replaces "Boolean algebras." See (for instance) M. A. Harrison, “On the classification of Boolean functions by the general linear and affine groups,” Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics  1964 12:2, 285-299.

Death on Beltane

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:46 am

"Stencils" from a 1959 paper by Golomb —

Boolean functions illustration by Golomb, 1959

These 15 figures also represent the 15 points of a finite geometry
(Cullinane diamond theorem, February 1979).

This  journal on Beltane (May 1), 2016 —

Sunday, April 30, 2023

For Harlan Kane: The Walpurgisnacht Hallucination

Note that if the "compact Riemann surface" is a torus formed by
joining opposite edges of a 4×4 square array, and the phrase
"vector bundle" is replaced by "projective line," and so forth,
the above ChatGPT hallucination is not completely unrelated to
the following illustration from the webpage "galois.space" —

See as well the Cullinane  diamond theorem.

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Zero Sum Game

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:22 pm

Google Search now emphasizes the reasoning
behind the diamond theorem —

For related language  (but un-related ideas ), see Zero Sum in this journal.

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Disney Endings

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:01 am

The New York Times  reports a Monday,
March 13, 2023, death:

This  journal Monday —

Final image of the above "diamond theorem" penrose  search on Monday —

From March 2 —

Monday, March 13, 2023

Frontiers of Artificial Mathematics

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:57 am

Previous posts have shown ChatGPT answering the question
"What is the diamond theorem?" with references to Thurston
and, later, to Conway. Today it is Penrose's turn.

Related search results (click to enlarge) —

 

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Annals of Artificial Mathematics

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:11 pm

The response of ChatGPT to a question about my work
continues to evolve.  It now credits Conway, not Thurston,*
for the diamond theorem.

The paragraph beginning "The theorem states" appears** to be based
on the following 24 patterns — which number only 8, if rotated or
reflected patterns are considered equivalent.

* For Thurston in an earlier ChatGPT response to the same question,
see a Log24 post of Feb. 25.

** The illustration above is based on the divison of a square into
four smaller subsquares.  If the square is rotated by 45 degrees,
it becomes a diamond  that can be, in the language of ChatGPT,
divided into "four smaller diamonds ."

Monday, February 6, 2023

Interality Studies

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:26 pm
 

You, Xi-lin; Zhang, Peter. "Interality in Heidegger." 
The Free Library , April 1, 2015.  
. . . .

The term "interology" is meant as an interventional alternative to traditional Western ontology. The idea is to help shift people's attention and preoccupation from subjects, objects, and entities to the interzones, intervals, voids, constitutive grounds, relational fields, interpellative assemblages, rhizomes, and nothingness that lie between, outside, or beyond the so-called subjects, objects, and entities; from being to nothing, interbeing, and becoming; from self-identicalness to relationality, chance encounters, and new possibilities of life; from "to be" to "and … and … and …" (to borrow Deleuze's language); from the actual to the virtual; and so on. As such, the term wills nothing short of a paradigm shift. Unlike other "logoi," which have their "objects of study," interology studies interality, which is a non-object, a no-thing that in-forms and constitutes the objects and things studied by other logoi.
. . . .

Some remarks from this  journal on April 1, 2015 —

Manifest O

Tags:  

— m759 @ 4:44 AM April 1, 2015

The title was suggested by
http://benmarcus.com/smallwork/manifesto/.

The "O" of the title stands for the octahedral  group.

See the following, from http://finitegeometry.org/sc/map.html —

83-06-21 An invariance of symmetry The diamond theorem on a 4x4x4 cube, and a sketch of the proof.
83-10-01 Portrait of O  A table of the octahedral group O using the 24 patterns from the 2×2 case of the diamond theorem.
83-10-16 Study of O  A different way of looking at the octahedral group, using cubes that illustrate the 2x2x2 case of the diamond theorem.
84-09-15 Diamonds and whirls Block designs of a different sort — graphic figures on cubes. See also the University of Exeter page on the octahedral group O.

The above site, finitegeometry.org/sc, illustrates how the symmetry
of various visual patterns is explained by what Zhang calls "interality."

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Two Approaches to Local-Global Symmetry

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:34 am

Last revised: January 20, 2023 @ 11:39:05

The First Approach — Via Substructure Isomorphisms —

From "Symmetry in Mathematics and Mathematics of Symmetry"
by Peter J. Cameron, a Jan. 16, 2007, talk at the International
Symmetry Conference, Edinburgh, Jan. 14-17, 2007

Local or global?

"Among other (mostly more vague) definitions of symmetry, the dictionary will typically list two, something like this:

• exact correspondence of parts;
• remaining unchanged by transformation.

Mathematicians typically consider the second, global, notion, but what about the first, local, notion, and what is the relationship between them?  A structure M  is homogeneous * if every isomorphism between finite substructures of M  can be extended to an automorphism of ; in other words, 'any local symmetry is global.' "

A related discussion of the same approach — 

"The aim of this thesis is to classify certain structures
which are, from a certain point of view,
as homogeneous as possible, that is
which have as many symmetries as possible.
the basic idea is the following: a structure S  is
said to be homogeneous  if, whenever two (finite)
substructures Sand S2 of S  are isomorphic,
there is an automorphism of S  mapping S1 onto S2.”

— Alice Devillers,
Classification of Some Homogeneous
and Ultrahomogeneous Structures
,”
Ph.D. thesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles,
academic year 2001-2002

The Wikipedia article Homogeneous graph discusses the local-global approach
used by Cameron and by Devillers.

For some historical background on this approach
via substructure isomorphisms, see a former student of Cameron:

Dugald Macpherson, "A survey of homogeneous structures,"
Discrete Mathematics , Volume 311, Issue 15, 2011,
Pages 1599-1634.

Related material:

Cherlin, G. (2000). "Sporadic Homogeneous Structures."
In: Gelfand, I.M., Retakh, V.S. (eds)
The Gelfand Mathematical Seminars, 1996–1999.
Gelfand Mathematical Seminars. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1340-6_2

and, more recently, 

Gill et al., "Cherlin's conjecture on finite primitive binary
permutation groups," https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05154v2
(Submitted on 9 Jun 2021, last revised 9 Jul 2021)

This approach seems to be a rather deep rabbit hole.

The Second Approach — Via Induced Group Actions —

My own interest in local-global symmetry is of a quite different sort.

See properties of the two patterns illustrated in a note of 24 December 1981 —

Pattern A above actually has as few  symmetries as possible
(under the actions described in the diamond theorem ), but it
does  enjoy, as does patttern B, the local-global property that
a group acting in the same way locally on each part  induces
a global group action on the whole .

* For some historical background on the term "homogeneous,"
    see the Wikipedia article Homogeneous space.

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Affine Dürer

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:21 pm

The previous post's image illustrating the
ancient Lo Shu  square as an affine transformation
suggests a similar view of Dürer's square.

That view illustrates the structural principle
underlying the diamond theorem


Monday, August 1, 2022

Interality Again: The Art of the Gefüge

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:52 pm

"Schufreider shows that a network of linguistic relations
is set up between Gestalt, Ge-stell,  and Gefüge, on the
one hand, and Streit, Riß,  and Fuge, on the other . . . ."

— From p. 14 of French Interpretations of Heidegger ,
edited by David Pettigrew and François Raffoul.
State U. of New York Press, Albany, 2008. (Links added.)

One such "network of linguistic relations" might arise from
a non-mathematician's attempt to describe the diamond theorem.

(The phrase "network of linguistic relations" appears also in 
Derrida's remarks on Husserl's Origin of Geometry .)

For more about "a system of slots," see interality in this journal.

The source of the above prefatory remarks by editors Pettigrew and Raffoul —

"If there is a specific network that is set up in 'The Origin of the Work of Art,'
a set of structural relations framed in linguistic terms, it is between
Gestalt, Ge-stell and Gefüge, on the one hand, and Streit, Riß and Fuge
on the other; between (as we might try to translate it)  
configuration, frame-work and structure (system), on the one hand, and
strife, split (slit) and slot, on the other. On our view, these two sets go
hand in hand; which means, to connect them to one another, we will
have to think of the configuration of the rift (Gestalt/Riß) as taking place
in a frame-work of strife (Ge-stell/Streit) that is composed through a system
of slots (Gefüge/Fuge) or structured openings." 

— Quotation from page 197 of Schufreider, Gregory (2008):
"Sticking Heidegger with a Stela: Lacoue-Labarthe, art and politics."
Pp. 187-214 in David Pettigrew & François Raffoul (eds.), 
French Interpretations of Heidegger: An Exceptional Reception.
State University of New York Press, 2008.

Update at 5:14 AM ET Wednesday, August 3, 2022 —

See also "six-set" in this journal.

"There is  such a thing as a six-set."
— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Compare and Contrast

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:04 am

Related reading:
 Shibumi: A N
ovel 
and
"The Diamond Theorem
  in Basque Country."

Sunday, January 2, 2022

Annals of Modernism:  URGrid

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:09 am

The above New Yorker  art illustrates the 2×4  structure of
an octad  in the Miracle Octad Generator  of R. T. Curtis.

Enthusiasts of simplicity may note how properties of this eight-cell
2×4  grid are related to those of the smaller six-cell 3×2  grid:

See Nocciolo  in this journal and . . .

Further reading on the six-set – eight-set relationship:

the diamond theorem correlation

Saturday, May 8, 2021

A Tale of Two Omegas

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:00 am

The Greek capital letter Omega, Ω, is customarily
used to denote a set that is acted upon by a group.
If the group is the affine group of 322,560
transformations of the four-dimensional
affine space over the two-element Galois field,
the appropriate Ω is the 4×4 grid above.

See the Cullinane diamond theorem .

If the group is the large Mathieu group  of
244,823,040 permutations of 24 things,
the appropriate Ω  is the 4×6 grid below.

See the Miracle Octad Generator  of R. T. Curtis.

Thursday, April 22, 2021

A New Concrete Model for an Old Abstract Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:31 am

The April 20 summary I wrote for ScienceOpen.com suggests
a different presentation of an Encyclopedia of Mathematics
article from 2013 —

(Click to enlarge.)

Introduction to the Square Model of Fano's 1892 Finite 3-Space

Keywords: PG(3,2), Fano space, projective space, finite geometry, square model,
Cullinane diamond theorem, octad group, MOG.

Cite as

Cullinane, Steven H. (2021).
“The Square Model of Fano’s 1892 Finite 3-Space.”
Zenodo. 
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4718182 .

An earlier version of the square model of PG(3,2) —

Thursday, March 25, 2021

A Day at the Museum

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:51 pm

Context for the Cullinane diamond theorem in
the Smithsonian’s NASA Astrophysics Data System:

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Teaching the Academy to See

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:03 am

“Art bears the same relationship to society
that the dream bears to mental life. . . .
Like art, the dream mediates between order
and chaos. So, it is half chaos. That is why
it is not comprehensible. It is a vision, not
a fully fledged articulated production.
Those who actualize those half-born visions
into artistic productions are those who begin
to transform what we do not understand into
what we can at least start to see.”

— A book published on March 2, 2021:
Beyond Order , by Jordan Peterson

The inarticulate, in this case, is Rosalind Krauss:

A “raid on the inarticulate” published in Notices of the
American Mathematical Society  in the February 1979 issue —

The Cullinane diamond theorem, AMS Notices, Feb. 1979, pp. A-193-194

Friday, February 26, 2021

Non-Chaos Non-Magic

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:21 pm

For fans of “WandaVision” —

“1978 was perhaps the seminal year in the origin of chaos magic. . . .”

Wikipedia article on Chaos Magic

Non-Chaos Non-Magic from Halloween 1978 —

The Cullinane diamond theorem, AMS Notices, Feb. 1979, pp. A-193-194

Related material —

A doctoral student of a different  Peter Cameron

( Not to be confused with The Tin Man’s Hat. )

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Logo Animation

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:32 pm

Related material from Log24 yesterday —

Version of the Aquarius symbol   Click the  Aquarius symbol for a puzzle.

Aquarius.jpg .

A related animation —

Animated diamond theorem

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Classic Romantic

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:38 pm

Robert M. Pirsig,  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ,
Ch. 6 (italics are mine):

“A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form  itself.
A romantic understanding sees it primarily in terms of immediate appearance .”

Illustration

Diamond theorem illustrations

 

Thursday, August 6, 2020

After Personalities . . . Principles

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:10 pm

In memory of New York personality Pete Hamill ,
who reportedly died yesterday —

Seven years ago yesterday —

The Diamond Theorem, arXiv, 5 August 2013

In memory of another New York  personality, a parking-garage mogul
who reportedly died on August 9, 2005 —

Icon Parking  posts and . . .

Beadgame Space

Thursday, July 30, 2020

A Picture Show for Quanta Magazine

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 8:33 am

An article yesterday at Quanta Magazine  suggests a review . . .

From Diamond Theorem  images at Pinterest —

Some background —

Thursday, July 9, 2020

The Enigma Glyphs

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:53 am

IMAGE- The Diamond Theorem

For those who  prefer fiction —

“Twenty-four glyphs, each one representing not a letter, not a word,
but a concept, arranged into four groups, written in Boris’s own hand,
an artifact that seemed to have resurrected him from the dead. It was
as if he were sitting across from Bourne now, in the dim antiquity of
the museum library.

This was what Bourne was staring at now, written on the unfolded
bit of onionskin.”

— “Robert Ludlum’s”  The Bourne Enigma , published on June 21, 2016

Passing, on June 21, 2016, into a higher dimension —

Friday, June 12, 2020

Bullshit Studies: “Hyperseeing”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:13 am

In memoriam —

Friedman co-edited the ISAMA journal  Hyperseeing .  See also . . .

See too the other articles in Volume 40 of  Kybernetes .

Related material —

Compare and contrast the discussion of the geometry
of the 4×4 square
in the diamond theorem (1976) with
Nat Friedman’s treatment of the same topic in 2001 —

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Kant as Diamond Cutter

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 4:26 am

"He wished Kant were alive. Kant would have appreciated it.
That master diamond cutter."

— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , Part III.

Kant's  "category theory" —

"In the Transcendental Analytic, Kant deduces the table of twelve categories, or pure concepts of the understanding….

The categories must be 'schematized' because their non-empirical origin in pure understanding prevents their having the sort of sensible content that would connect them immediately to the objects of experience; transcendental schemata are mediating representations that are meant to establish the connection between pure concepts and appearances in a rule-governed way. Mathematical concepts are discussed in this context since they are unique in being pure but also sensible concepts: they are pure because they are strictly a priori  in origin, and yet they are sensible since they are constructed in concreto . "

— Shabel, Lisa, "Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  (Spring 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/kant-mathematics/>.

See also The Diamond Theorem and Octad.us.

Saturday, March 7, 2020

The “Octad Group” as Symmetries of the 4×4 Square

From "Mathieu Moonshine and Symmetry Surfing" —

(Submitted on 29 Sep 2016, last revised 22 Jan 2018)
by Matthias R. Gaberdiel (1), Christoph A. Keller (2),
and Hynek Paul (1)

(1)  Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich
(2)  Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich

https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09302v2 —

"This presentation of the symmetry groups Gi  is
particularly well-adapted for the symmetry surfing
philosophy. In particular it is straightforward to
combine them into an overarching symmetry group G
by combining all the generators. The resulting group is
the so-called octad group

G = (Z2)4  A8 .

It can be described as a maximal subgroup of M24
obtained by the setwise stabilizer of a particular
'reference octad' in the Golay code, which we take
to be O= {3,5,6,9,15,19,23,24} ∈ 𝒢24. The octad
subgroup is of order 322560, and its index in M24
is 759, which is precisely the number of
different reference octads one can choose."

This "octad group" is in fact the symmetry group of the affine 4-space over GF(2),
so described in 1979 in connection not with the Golay code but with the geometry
of the 4×4 square.* Its nature as an affine group acting on the Golay code was
known long before 1979, but its description as an affine group acting on
the 4×4 square may first have been published in connection with the
Cullinane diamond theorem and Abstract 79T-A37, "Symmetry invariance in a
diamond ring
," by Steven H. Cullinane in Notices of the American Mathematical
Society
, February 1979, pages A-193, 194.

* The Galois tesseract .

Update of March 15, 2020 —

Conway and Sloane on the "octad group" in 1993 —

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Gap Dance

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:09 am

From Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar":

IX

And the color, the overcast blue
Of the air, in which the blue guitar
Is a form, described but difficult,
And I am merely a shadow hunched
Above the arrowy, still strings,
The maker of a thing yet to be made . . . .

"Arrowy, still strings" from the diamond theorem

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Pattern and Structure

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:11 pm

From the previous post

" . . . Only by the form, the structure,
Can words or music reach
The stillness . . . ."

— Adapted from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets 
     
by replacing "pattern" with "structure."

Other such replacements

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Congruent Subarrays

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:10 pm

A search for "congruent subarrays" yields few results. Hence this post.

Some relevant mathematics:  the Cullinane diamond theorem, which
deals with permutations  of congruent subarrays.

A related topic:  Square Triangles (December 15, 2015).

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

A Block Design 3-(16,4,1) as a Steiner Quadruple System:

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:19 am

A Midrash for Wikipedia 

Midrash —

Related material —


________________________________________________________________________________

The Miracle Octad Generator (MOG), the affine 4-space over GF(2), and the Cullinane diamond theorem

Friday, March 1, 2019

Wikipedia Scholarship (Continued)

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 12:45 pm

This post continues a post from yesterday on the square model of
PG(3,2) that apparently first appeared (presented as such*) in . . .

Cullinane, "Symmetry invariance in a diamond ring,"
Notices of the AMS , pp. A193-194, Feb. 1979.

The Cullinane diamond theorem, AMS Notices, Feb. 1979, pp. A-193-194

Yesterday's Wikipedia presentation of the square model was today
revised by yet another anonymous author —

Revision history accounting for the above change from yesterday —

The jargon "rm OR" means "remove original research."

The added verbiage about block designs is a smokescreen having
nothing to do with the subject, which is square  representation
of the 35 points and lines.

* The 35 squares, each consisting of four 4-element subsets, appeared earlier
   in the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) of R. T. Curtis (published in 1976).
  They were not at that time  presented as constituting a finite geometry, 
  either affine (AG(4,2)) or projective (PG(3,2)).

Friday, February 22, 2019

Back Issues of AMS Notices

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:04 pm

From the online home page of the new March issue —

Feb. 22, 2019 — AMS Notices back issues now available.

For instance . . .

The Cullinane diamond theorem, AMS Notices, Feb. 1979, pp. A-193-194

Related material now at Wikipedia

The Miracle Octad Generator (MOG), the affine 4-space over GF(2), and the Cullinane diamond theorem

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Eidetic Reduction in Geometry

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — Tags: , , , , , — m759 @ 1:23 am
 

"Husserl is not the greatest philosopher of all times.
He is the greatest philosopher since Leibniz."

Kurt Gödel as quoted by Gian-Carlo Rota

Some results from a Google search —

Eidetic reduction | philosophy | Britannica.com

Eidetic reduction, in phenomenology, a method by which the philosopher moves from the consciousness of individual and concrete objects to the transempirical realm of pure essences and thus achieves an intuition of the eidos (Greek: “shape”) of a thing—i.e., of what it is in its invariable and essential structure, apart …

Phenomenology Online » Eidetic Reduction

The eidetic reduction: eidos. Method: Bracket all incidental meaning and ask: what are some of the possible invariate aspects of this experience? The research …

Eidetic reduction – New World Encyclopedia

Sep 19, 2017 – Eidetic reduction is a technique in Husserlian phenomenology, used to identify the essential components of the given phenomenon or experience.

Terminology: Eidos

For example —

The reduction of two-colorings and four-colorings of a square or cubic
array of subsquares or subcubes to lines, sets of lines, cuts, or sets of
cuts between the subsquares or subcubes.

See the diamond theorem and the eightfold cube.

* Cf. posts tagged Interality and Interstice.

Monday, August 27, 2018

Children of the Six Sides

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:32 am

http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180827-Terminator-3-tx-arrival-publ-160917.jpg

http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180827-Terminator-3-tx-arrival-publ-161018.jpg

From the former date above —

Saturday, September 17, 2016

A Box of Nothing

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:13 AM

(Continued)

"And six sides to bounce it all off of.

From the latter date above —

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Parametrization

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 6:00 AM

The term "parametrization," as discussed in Wikipedia, seems useful for describing labelings that are not, at least at first glance, of a vector-space  nature.

Examples: The labelings of a 4×4 array by a blank space plus the 15 two-subsets of a six-set (Hudson, 1905) or by a blank plus the 5 elements and the 10 two-subsets of a five-set (derived in 2014 from a 1906 page by Whitehead), or by a blank plus the 15 line diagrams of the diamond theorem.

Thus "parametrization" is apparently more general than the word "coodinatization" used by Hermann Weyl —

“This is the relativity problem:  to fix objectively a class of equivalent coordinatizations and to ascertain the group of transformations S mediating between them.”

— Hermann Weyl, The Classical Groups , Princeton University Press, 1946, p. 16

Note, however, that Weyl's definition of "coordinatization" is not limited to vector-space  coordinates. He describes it as simply a mapping to a set of reproducible symbols

(But Weyl does imply that these symbols should, like vector-space coordinates, admit a group of transformations among themselves that can be used to describe transformations of the point-space being coordinatized.)

From March 2018 —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180827-MIT-Rubik-Robot.jpg

Saturday, June 9, 2018

SASTRA paper

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:14 pm

Now out from behind a paywall . . .

The diamond theorem at SASTRA —

Monday, May 7, 2018

Data

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:32 am

(Continued from yesterday's Sunday School Lesson Plan for Peculiar Children)

Novelist George Eliot and programming pioneer Ada Lovelace —

For an image that suggests a resurrected multifaceted 
(specifically, 759-faceted) Osterman Omega (as in Sunday's afternoon
Log24 post
), behold  a photo from today's NY Times  philosophy
column "The Stone" that was reproduced here in today's previous post

For a New York Times  view of George Eliot data, see a Log24 post 
of September 20, 2016, on the diamond theorem as the Middlemarch
"key to all mythologies."

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Illustrators of the Word

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 1:30 am

Tom Wolfe in The Painted Word  (1975) 

“I am willing (now that so much has been revealed!)
to predict that in the year 2000, when the Metropolitan
or the Museum of Modern Art puts on the great
retrospective exhibition of American Art 1945-75,
the three artists who will be featured, the three seminal
figures of the era, will be not Pollock, de Kooning, and
Johns-but Greenberg, Rosenberg, and Steinberg.
Up on the walls will be huge copy blocks, eight and a half
by eleven feet each, presenting the protean passages of
the period … a little ‘fuliginous flatness’ here … a little
‘action painting’ there … and some of that ‘all great art
is about art’ just beyond. Beside them will be small
reproductions of the work of leading illustrators of
the Word from that period….”

The above group of 322,560 permutations appears also in a 2011 book —

From 'Beautiful Mathematics,' by Martin Erickson, an excerpt on the Cullinane diamond theorem (with source not mentioned)

— and in 2013-2015 papers by Anne Taormina and Katrin Wendland:

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Behance Post

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:17 pm

I just came across the 2010 web page
https://pantone.ccnsite.com/gallery/HELDER-visual-identity/603956,
associated with the Adobe site "Behance.net." That page suggested
I too should have a Behance web presence.

And so the diamond theorem now appears at . . .

https://www.behance.net/gallery/64334249/The-Diamond-Theorem.

Thursday, March 29, 2018

“Before Creation Itself . . .”

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 10:13 am

From the Diamond Theorem Facebook page —

A question three hours ago at that page

"Is this Time Cube?"

Notes toward an answer —

And from Six-Set Geometry in this journal . . .

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

On Unfairly Excluding Asymmetry

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:28 am

A comment on the the Diamond Theorem Facebook page



Those who enjoy asymmetry may consult the "Expert's Cube" —

For further details see the previous post.

Friday, February 16, 2018

Two Kinds of Symmetry

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:29 pm

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton in its Fall 2015 Letter 
revived "Beautiful Mathematics" as a title:

This ugly phrase was earlier used by Truman State University
professor Martin Erickson as a book title. See below. 

In the same IAS Fall 2015 Letter appear the following remarks
by Freeman Dyson —

". . . a special case of a much deeper connection that Ian Macdonald 
discovered between two kinds of symmetry which we call modular and affine.
The two kinds of symmetry were originally found in separate parts of science,
modular in pure mathematics and affine in physics. Modular symmetry is
displayed for everyone to see in the drawings of flying angels and devils
by the artist Maurits Escher. Escher understood the mathematics and got the
details right. Affine symmetry is displayed in the peculiar groupings of particles
created by physicists with high-energy accelerators. The mathematician
Robert Langlands was the first to conjecture a connection between these and
other kinds of symmetry. . . ." (Wikipedia link added.)

The adjective "modular"  might aptly be applied to . . .

The adjective "affine"  might aptly be applied to . . .

From 'Beautiful Mathematics,' by Martin Erickson, an excerpt on the Cullinane diamond theorem (with source not mentioned)

The geometry of the 4×4 square combines modular symmetry
(i.e., related to theta functions) with the affine symmetry above.

Hudson's 1905 discussion of modular symmetry (that of Rosenhain
tetrads and Göpel tetrads) in the 4×4 square used a parametrization
of that square by the digit 0 and the fifteen 2-subsets of a 6-set, but 
did not discuss the 4×4 square as an affine space.

For the connection of the 15 Kummer modular 2-subsets with the 16-
element affine space over the two-element Galois field GF(2), see my note
of May 26, 1986, "The 2-subsets of a 6-set are the points of a PG(3,2)" —

— and the affine structure in the 1979 AMS abstract
"Symmetry invariance in a diamond ring" —

For some historical background on the symmetry investigations by
Dyson and Macdonald, see Dyson's 1972 article "MIssed Opportunities."

For Macdonald's own  use of the words "modular" and "affine," see
Macdonald, I. G., "Affine Lie algebras and modular forms," 
Séminaire N. Bourbaki , Vol. 23 (1980-1981), Talk no. 577, pp. 258-276.

Monday, December 18, 2017

Wheelwright and the Dance

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — m759 @ 1:00 pm

The page preceding that of yesterday's post  Wheelwright and the Wheel —

See also a Log24 search for 
"Four Quartets" + "Four Elements".

A graphic approach to this concept:

"The Bounded Space" —

'Space Cross' from the Cullinane diamond theorem

"The Fire, Air, Earth, and Water" —

Logo for 'Elements of Finite Geometry'

Thursday, November 30, 2017

The Matrix for Quantum Mystics

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 10:29 pm

Scholia on the title — See Quantum + Mystic in this journal.

The Matrix of Lévi-Strauss

"In Vol. I of Structural Anthropology , p. 209, I have shown that
this analysis alone can account for the double aspect of time
representation in all mythical systems: the narrative is both
'in time' (it consists of a succession of events) and 'beyond'
(its value is permanent)." — Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1976

I prefer the earlier, better-known, remarks on time by T. S. Eliot
in Four Quartets , and the following four quartets (from
The Matrix Meets the Grid) —

.

From a Log24 post of June 26-27, 2017:

A work of Eddington cited in 1974 by von Franz

See also Dirac and Geometry and Kummer in this journal.

Ron Shaw on Eddington's triads "associated in conjugate pairs" —

For more about hyperbolic  and isotropic  lines in PG(3,2),
see posts tagged Diamond Theorem Correlation.

For Shaw, in memoriam — See Contrapuntal Interweaving and The Fugue.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Visual Insight

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — m759 @ 1:00 pm

The most recent post in the "Visual Insight" blog of the
American Mathematical Society was by John Baez on Jan. 1, 2017


A visually  related concept — See Solomon's Cube in this  journal.
Chronologically  related — Posts now tagged New Year's Day 2017.
Solomon's cube is the 4x4x4 case of the diamond theorem — 

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Dueling Formulas

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 12:35 pm

Continued from the previous post and from posts
now tagged Dueling Formulas

The four-diamond formula of Jung and
the four-dot "as" of Claude Lévi-Strauss:

Simplified versions of the diamonds and the dots
 

The Ring of the Diamond Theorem          ::

I prefer Jung. For those who prefer Lévi-Strauss —

     First edition, Cornell University Press, 1970.

A related tale — "A Meaning, Like."

Thursday, August 31, 2017

A Conway-Norton-Ryba Theorem

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:40 pm

In a book to be published Sept. 5 by Princeton University Press,
John Conway, Simon Norton,  and Alex Ryba present the following
result on order-four magic squares —

A monograph published in 1976, “Diamond Theory,” deals with
more general 4×4 squares containing entries from the Galois fields
GF(2), GF(4), or GF(16).  These squares have remarkable, if not
“magic,” symmetry properties.  See excerpts in a 1977 article.

See also Magic Square and Diamond Theorem in this  journal.

Monday, June 26, 2017

Upgrading to Six

This post was suggested by the previous post — Four Dots —
and by the phrase "smallest perfect" in this journal.

Related material (click to enlarge) —

Detail —

From the work of Eddington cited in 1974 by von Franz —

See also Dirac and Geometry and Kummer in this journal.

Updates from the morning of June 27 —

Ron Shaw on Eddington's triads "associated in conjugate pairs" —

For more about hyperbolic  and isotropic  lines in PG(3,2),
see posts tagged Diamond Theorem Correlation.

For Shaw, in memoriam — See Contrapuntal Interweaving and The Fugue.

Monday, June 19, 2017

Dead End

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:24 pm

Group Actions on Partitions- 1985

Google Search- 'group actions on partitions'- June 19, 2017

The above 1985 note was an attempt to view the diamond theorem
in a more general context. I know no more about the note now than 
I did in 1985. The only item in the search results above that is not  
by me (the seventh) seems of little relevance.

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Found in Translation

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:16 pm

The diamond theorem in Denmark —

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Image Albums

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , , , — m759 @ 1:05 pm

Pinterest boards uploaded to the new m759.net/piwigo

Diamond Theorem 

Diamond Theorem Correlation

Miracle Octad Generator

The Eightfold Cube

Six-Set Geometry

Diamond Theory Cover

Update of May 2 —

Four-Color Decomposition

Binary Galois Spaces

The Galois Tesseract

Update of May 3 —

Desargues via Galois

The Tetrahedral Model

Solomon's Cube

Update of May 8 —

Art Space board created at Pinterest

Friday, April 7, 2017

Personal Identity

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:40 pm

From "The Most Notorious Section Phrases," by Sophie G. Garrett
in The Harvard Crimson  on April 5, 2017 —

This passage reminds me of (insert impressive philosophy
that was not in the reading).

This student is just being a show off. We get that they are smart
and well read. Congrats, but please don’t make the rest of the us
look bad in comparison. It should be enough to do the assigned
reading without making connections to Hume’s theory of the self.

Hume on personal identity (the "self")

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception. When my perceptions are removed for any time, as by sound sleep, so long am I insensible of myself, and may truly be said not to exist. And were all my perceptions removed by death, and could I neither think, nor feel, nor see, nor love, nor hate, after the dissolution of my body, I should be entirely annihilated, nor do I conceive what is further requisite to make me a perfect nonentity.
. . . .

I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions. Our thought is still more variable than our sight; and all our other senses and faculties contribute to this change: nor is there any single power of the soul, which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment. The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different, whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind; nor have we the most distant notion of the place where these scenes are represented, or of the materials of which it is composed.

Related material —
Imago Dei  in this journal.

The Ring of the Diamond Theorem

Backstory —
The previous post
and The Crimson Abyss.

Saturday, March 4, 2017

Hidden Figure

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:17 am

From this morning's New York Times  Wire

A cybersecurity-related image from Thursday evening

The diamond theorem correlation at the University of Bradford

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Raiders of the Lost Crucible Continues

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:59 pm

Cover, 2005 paperback edition of 'Refiner's Fire,' a 1977 novel by Mark Helprin

Mariner Books paperback, 2005

See, too, this evening's A Common Space
and earlier posts on Raiders of the Lost Crucible.

Also not without relevance —

The diamond theorem correlation at the University of Bradford

Sunday, January 8, 2017

A Theory of Everything

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:11 pm

The title refers to the Chinese book the I Ching ,
the Classic of Changes .

The 64 hexagrams of the I Ching  may be arranged
naturally in a 4x4x4 cube. The natural form of transformations
("changes") of this cube is given by the diamond theorem.

A related post —

The Eightfold Cube, core structure of the I Ching

Friday, October 28, 2016

Diamond-Theorem Application

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 1:06 pm
 

Abstract:

"Protection of digital content from being tapped by intruders is a crucial task in the present generation of Internet world. In this paper, we proposed an implementation of new visual secret sharing scheme for gray level images using diamond theorem correlation. A secret image has broken into 4 × 4 non overlapped blocks and patterns of diamond theorem are applied sequentially to ensure the secure image transmission. Separate diamond patterns are utilized to share the blocks of both odd and even sectors. Finally, the numerical results show that a novel secret shares are generated by using diamond theorem correlations. Histogram representations demonstrate the novelty of the proposed visual secret sharing scheme."

— "New visual secret sharing scheme for gray-level images using diamond theorem correlation pattern structure," by  V. Harish, N. Rajesh Kumar, and N. R. Raajan.

Published in: 2016 International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies (ICCPCT).
Date of Conference: 18-19 March 2016. Publisher: IEEE.
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 04 August 2016

Excerpts —

Related material — Posts tagged Diamond Theorem Correlation.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Parametrization

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 6:00 am

The term "parametrization," as discussed in Wikipedia,
seems useful for describing labelings that are not, at least
at first glance, of a vector-space  nature.

Examples: The labelings of a 4×4 array by a blank space
plus the 15 two-subsets of a six-set (Hudson, 1905) or by a
blank plus the 5 elements and the 10 two-subsets of a five-set
(derived in 2014 from a 1906 page by Whitehead), or by 
a blank plus the 15 line diagrams of the diamond theorem.

Thus "parametrization" is apparently more general than
the word "coodinatization" used by Hermann Weyl —

“This is the relativity problem:  to fix objectively
a class of equivalent coordinatizations and to
ascertain the group of transformations S
mediating between them.”

— Hermann Weyl, The Classical Groups ,
Princeton University Press, 1946, p. 16

Note, however, that Weyl's definition of "coordinatization"
is not limited to vector-space  coordinates. He describes it
as simply a mapping to a set of reproducible symbols

(But Weyl does imply that these symbols should, like vector-space 
coordinates, admit a group of transformations among themselves
that can be used to describe transformations of the point-space
being coordinatized.)

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Chomsky and Lévi-Strauss in China

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:31 am

Or:  Philosophy for Jews

From a New Yorker  weblog post dated Dec. 6, 2012 —

"Happy Birthday, Noam Chomsky" by Gary Marcus—

"… two titans facing off, with Chomsky, as ever,
defining the contest"

"Chomsky sees himself, correctly, as continuing
a conversation that goes back to Plato, especially
the Meno dialogue, in which a slave boy is
revealed by Socrates to know truths about
geometry that he hadn’t realized he knew."

Socrates and the slave boy discussed a rather elementary "truth
about geometry" — A diamond inscribed in a square has area 2
(and side the square root of 2) if the square itself has area 4
(and side 2).

Consider that not-particularly-deep structure from the Meno dialogue
in the light of the following…

The following analysis of the Meno diagram from yesterday's
post "The Embedding" contradicts the Lévi-Strauss dictum on
the impossibility of going beyond a simple binary opposition.
(The Chinese word taiji  denotes the fundamental concept in
Chinese philosophy that such a going-beyond is both useful
and possible.)

The matrix at left below represents the feminine yin  principle
and the diamond at right represents the masculine yang .

      From a post of Sept. 22,
"Binary Opposition Illustrated" —

A symbol of the unity of yin and yang —

Related material:

A much more sophisticated approach to the "deep structure" of the
Meno diagram —

The larger cases —

The diamond theorem

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Savage Logic

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 9:29 pm

From "The Cerebral Savage," by Clifford Geertz —

(Encounter, Vol. 28 No. 4 (April 1967), pp. 25-32.)

From http://www.diamondspace.net/about.html

The diamond theorem

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Review

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 2:00 pm

Fugue No. 21
B-Flat Major
Well-Tempered Clavier Book II
Johann Sebastian Bach
by Timothy A. Smith

Theme and Variations
by Steven H. Cullinane

The beginning of each —

Cullinane, 'Theme and Variations'

Some context —

The diamond theorem

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

The Central Structure

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 8:00 am

“The central poem is the poem of the whole,
The poem of the composition of the whole”

— Wallace Stevens, “A Primitive like an Orb”

The symmetries of the central four squares in any pattern
from the 4×4 version of the diamond theorem  extend to
symmetries of the entire pattern.  This is true also of the
central eight cubes in the 4×4×4  Solomon’s cube .

Friday, June 10, 2016

High Concept

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 am

(Continued)

Orwell Meets Waugh

'Space Cross' from the Cullinane diamond theorem

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Sunday School

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 am

From 'The Politics of Experience,' by R.D. Laing

A less metaphysical approach to a "pre-form" —

From Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar":

IX

And the color, the overcast blue
Of the air, in which the blue guitar
Is a form, described but difficult,
And I am merely a shadow hunched
Above the arrowy, still strings,
The maker of a thing yet to be made . . . .

"Arrowy, still strings" from the diamond theorem

See also "preforming" and the blue guitar
in a post of May 19, 2010.

Update of 7:11 PM ET:
More generally, see posts tagged May 19 Gestalt.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Dueling Formulas

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

Jung's four-diamond formula vs. Levi-Strauss's 'canonical formula'

Note the echo of Jung's formula in the diamond theorem.

An attempt by Lévi-Strauss to defend his  formula —

"… reducing the life of the mind to an abstract game . . . ." —

For a fictional version of such a game, see Das Glasperlenspiel .

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