Background: Geometry of the Dance (May 9)
and Midnight in Oslo (May 10).
Peter Pesic has described the action of the
symmetric group S4 on a tetrahedron as a dance—
Compare and contrast:
The following figure may be seen as a tetrahedron,
viewed from above—
See also Masterman and Child’s Play.
Some background for this morning's post:
Margaret Masterman's Language, Cohesion and Form .
(See the morning post's footnote.)
Update of 12:25 PM EDT June 4, 2012—
See also "The Epiphany Philosophers" in the online
New York Times , a brief article dated September 19, 2008.
Jungians might enjoy a synchronistic note—
"Toward the Light," a brief post from this journal
on that same date.
Yesterday's post Child's Play displayed a cube formed
by a Hasse diagram of the 8 subsets of a 3-set.*
This suggests a review of a post from last January—
* See a comment on yesterday's post relating it to earlier,
very similar, remarks by Margaret Masterman.
I was unaware yesterday that those remarks exist.
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