Sunday, April 22, 2018
The Omega Matrix
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
The Omega Matrix
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Monday, June 15, 2015
Omega Matrix
See that phrase in this journal.
See also last night's post.
The Greek letter 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.
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Friday, August 15, 2014
The Omega Matrix
The webpage Rosenhain and Göpel Tetrads in PG(3,2)
has been updated to include more material on symplectic structure.
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Sunday, August 3, 2014
The Omega Matrix
Shown below is the matrix Omega from notes of Richard Evan Schwartz.
See also earlier versions (1976-1979) by Steven H. Cullinane.
Backstory: The Schwartz Notes (June 1, 2011), and Schwartz on
the American Mathematical Society's current home page:
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Thursday, August 7, 2014
The Omega Mystery
See a post, The Omega Matrix, from the date of her death.
Related material:
"When Death tells a story, you really have to listen."
— Cover of The Book Thief
A scene from the film of the above book —
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code is like staring into the sun.”
Some context — "Mathematics, Magic, and Mystery" —
See posts tagged April Awareness 2014.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
The Omega Story
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live…. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience." |
See also a post from May 4, 2011 (the date, according to a Google
search, of untitled notes regarding a matrix called Omega).
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Monday, January 15, 2024
Foursquare Variations
From Encyclopedia of Mathematics —
The above images from the history of mathematics might be
useful at some future point for illustrating academic hurly-burly.
Related reading . . .
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Friday, August 19, 2022
The Guy Embedding
M. J. T. Guy discovered that the lexicographic version
of the Golay code contains, embedded within it, the
Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) of R. T. Curtis.
For 12 basis vectors of the lexicographic version, see below.
For some context, click the embedded guy.
For a closely related, but simpler, mathematical
structure, see posts tagged The Omega Matrix.
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Saturday, February 23, 2019
Code Rain
See 031105-code in this journal, the Wachowskis
at Wikipedia, and The Omega Matrix in this journal.
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Thursday, June 21, 2018
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
The Schwartz Meme
Aficionados of the preposterous joke
(see yesterday's post Epstein on Art)
may consult a Google Image Search for
Schwartz Meme.
I prefer Schwartz même —
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Signature Backdrop
"The Bitter End’s signature stage backdrop —
a bare 150-year-old brick wall — helped distinguish it from
other popular bohemian hangouts like the Village Gate
and the Village Vanguard. It appeared on the cover of
Peter, Paul and Mary’s first album."
— The New York Times this evening on a Sunday death
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code is like staring into the sun.”
See also Schwartz in "The Omega Matrix," a post of 5 PM ET Sunday:
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Stranger than Dreams*
Illustration from a discussion of a symplectic structure
in a 4×4 array quoted here on January 17, 2014 —
See symplectic structure in this journal.
* The final words of Point Omega , a 2010 novel by Don DeLillo.
See also Omega Matrix in this journal.
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Monday, August 4, 2014
A Wrinkle in Space
"There is such a thing as a tesseract." — Madeleine L'Engle
An approach via the Omega Matrix:
See, too, Rosenhain and Göpel as The Shadow Guests .
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Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Requiescat in Pace
The Chicago Tribune today —
H. Wilbert Norton, college president
and Christian missionary, dies
Norton reportedly died at 102 on Feb. 20, 2017.
This evening's previous post linked the death dates of two
academics to two Log24 posts that both contained the
following image —
For some backstory, see the Log24 posts from the date
of Norton's reported death, February 20.
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Monday, October 10, 2011
The Aleph
COLLEGE OF THE DESERT
Minutes — Organization Meeting
11:00 a.m., Saturday, July 1, 1961—
15. Preparation of College Seal:
By unanimous consent preparation of a College
Seal to contain the following features was
authorized: A likeness of the Library building
set in a matrix of date palms, backed by
a mountain skyline and rising sun; before
the Library an open book, the Greek symbol
Alpha on one page and Omega on the other;
the Latin Lux et Veritas, College of the
Desert, and 1958 to be imprinted within or
around the periphery of the seal.
From the website http://geofhagopian.net/ of
Geoff Hagopian, Professor of Mathematics,
College of the Desert—
Note that this version of the seal contains
an Aleph and Omega instead of Alpha and Omega.
From another Hagopian website, another seal.
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