The assignments page for a graduate algebra course at Cornell
last fall had a link to the eightfold cube:
Friday, January 6, 2017
Eightfold Cube at Cornell
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Friday, September 14, 2018
Warburg at Cornell, Continued
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Monday, January 9, 2017
Analogical Extension at Cornell
Click to enlarge the following (from Cornell U. Press in 1962) —
For a more recent analogical extension at Cornell, see the
Epiphany 2017 post on the eightfold cube and yesterday
evening's post "A Theory of Everything."
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Saturday, May 1, 2021
Friday, December 31, 2021
Aesthetics in Academia
Related art — The non-Rubik 3x3x3 cube —
The above structure illustrates the affine space of three dimensions
over the three-element finite (i.e., Galois) field, GF(3). Enthusiasts
of Judith Brown's nihilistic philosophy may note the "radiance" of the
13 axes of symmetry within the "central, structuring" subcube.
I prefer the radiance (in the sense of Aquinas) of the central, structuring
eightfold cube at the center of the affine space of six dimensions over
the two-element field GF(2).
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Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Eight the Great
Starring J. J. Abrams as Leonhard Euler?
Related material —
The Cornell cap in the recent HBO "White Lotus" —
"I'm just playing the hand I was dealt."
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Saturday, September 5, 2020
Ikonologie des Zwischenraums
The title is from a Cornell page in the previous post.
Related material (click to enlarge) —
The above remarks on primitive mentality suggest
a review of Snakes on a Plane.
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Saturday, January 14, 2017
1984: A Space Odyssey
See Eightfold 1984 in this journal.
Related material —
"… the object sets up a kind of
frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany."
"… Instead of an epiphany of being,
we have something like
an epiphany of interspaces."
— Charles Taylor, "Epiphanies of Modernism,"
Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self ,
Cambridge University Press, 1989
"Perhaps every science must start with metaphor
and end with algebra; and perhaps without the metaphor
there would never have been any algebra."
— Max Black, Models and Metaphors ,
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1962
Click to enlarge:
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
Child’s Play
“A set having three members is a single thing
wholly constituted by its members but distinct from them.
After this, the theological doctrine of the Trinity as
‘three in one’ should be child’s play.”
– Max Black, Caveats and Critiques: Philosophical Essays
in Language, Logic, and Art , Cornell U. Press, 1975
Related material—
