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Thursday, November 1, 2018

The Albee Box

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:00 am

See also Albee + Box in this  journal.

Friday, July 13, 2018

Box

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

(Continued)

James Propp

"When I was a kid living in the Long Island suburbs,
I sometimes got called a math genius. I didn’t think
the label was apt, but I didn’t mind it; being put in
the genius box came with some pretty good perks."

— "The Genius Box," March 16, 2018

From posts in this  journal tagged "Black Diamond" —

Jack in the Box, by Natasha Wescoat

Saturday, July 8, 2017

Das Nichts … According to Albee

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:22 pm

"Deutsche Ordnung." — Yul Brynner
  in the 1966 film "Triple Cross"

Saturday, September 17, 2016

A Box of Nothing

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:13 am

(Continued)

"And six sides to bounce it all off of.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Acronym

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:52 pm

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.

For those who prefer comedy —

Thursday, May 14, 2020

For Mask Aficionados

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:36 pm

Saturday, September 17, 2016

 

Box of Nothing

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:13 AM

(Continued)

"And six sides to bounce it all off of.

For those who prefer comedy —

Other toys: Archimedes at Hiroshima and related posts.

Sunday, September 2, 2018

Picture Yourself …

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:12 pm

http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180902-Bird_Box-boat.jpg

http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180902-Kaleidoscope_Eyes-post-180806.jpg

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

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Key to All Mythologies…

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 6:08 pm

According to Octavio Paz and Claude Lévi-Strauss

"Poetry…. conceives of the text as a series of transparent strata
within which the various parts—the different verbal and semantic
currents— produce momentary configurations as they intertwine
or break apart, as they reflect each other or efface each other.
Poetry contemplates itself, fuses with itself, and obliterates itself
in the crystallizations of language. Apparitions, metamorphoses,
volatilizations, precipitations of presences. These configurations
are crystallized time…."

— Octavio Paz in  The Monkey Grammarian  (written in 1970)

"Strata" also seem to underlie the Lévi-Strauss "canonic formula" of myth
in its original 1955 context, described as that of permutation groups  —

The 1955 Levi-Strauss 'canonic formula' in its original context of permutation groups

I do not recommend trying to make sense of the above "formula."

Related material —

"And six sides to bounce it all off of.

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Composition

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:29 am

The late Edward Albee, as quoted today in The Telegraph :

“I tell my students, if you want to know something
about the structure of a play, listen to some Bach
preludes and fugues. I discovered classical music
when I was eight, nine, 10 years old, and I think
I learnt something about the nature of dramatic
structure from the nature of the music I was
listening to. I probably think of myself half the
time as a composer.”

See also  Box  as  Bach's.

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