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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

“Omega is as real  as we need it to be.”
— “The Osterman Weekend”

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

For art more closely related to the title "Alpha and Omega,"
see a different view of the above Hoyersten exhibition.

Sunday, May 6, 2018

The Osterman Omega

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:01 pm

From "The Osterman Weekend" (1983) —

Counting symmetries of the R. T. Curtis Omega:

An Illustration from Shakespeare's birthday

Counting symmetries with the orbit-stabilizer theorem

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

The Osterman Haiku

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:32 pm

Click on the book cover below for posts tagged "Haiku."

IMAGE- 'Point Omega' by DeLillo

Sunday, March 5, 2017

The Omega Matrix

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 5:00 pm

Richard Evan Schwartz on
the mathematics of the 4×4 square

See also Priority in this journal.

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Point Omega

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

IMAGE- Chair from 'Osterman Weekend' ending

“Am I still on?” — Ending line of  The Osterman Weekend  (1983)

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Omega Post

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:00 am

In memory of radio personality Steve Post,
a link to some remarks on the date of his death.

Monday, May 24, 2021

For Doctor Manhattan

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:33 am

"Omega is as real  as we need it to be." — The Osterman Weekend

See also related material in The New Yorker  and the National Review .

Friday, May 7, 2021

Types of Ambiguity

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:24 pm

“Omega is as real  as we need it to be.”
— Burt Lancaster in “The Osterman Weekend”

Sunday, July 28, 2019

Review

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:18 am

From a news article featured on the American Mathematical Society
home page today

A joint Vietnam-USA mathematical meeting in Vietnam on
June 10-13, 2019:

This  journal on June 12, 2019:

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

The Osterman Haiku

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:32 PM Edit This

Click on the book cover below for posts tagged "Haiku."

'Point Omega' by DeLillo

See also the Twentieth of May, 2008 —

Welcome to the Garden Club, Pilgrim.

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Kummerhenge Illustrated

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

      

“… the utterly real thing in writing is the only thing that counts…."

— Maxwell Perkins to Ernest Hemingway, Aug. 30, 1935

"Omega is as real  as we need it to be."

— Burt Lancaster in "The Osterman Weekend"

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."

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Manifest O

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:10 pm

"The Osterman Weekend" (1983) —

IMAGE- Chair from 'Osterman Weekend' ending

“Am I still on?” — Ending line of  The Osterman Weekend  (1983)

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Group Actions…

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

On the Eight

Sunday, January 11, 2015

The XYZ of Being

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

From a recent Gitterkrieg  post:

"The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon,
The A B C of being…." — Wallace Stevens

See also the cover of the February 2015
Notices of the American Mathematical Society .

"Omega is as real  as we need it to be."
Burt Lancaster in The Osterman Weekend

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Remarks on Reality

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:09 pm

Wallace Stevens in "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
(1950) on "The Ruler of Reality" —

"Again, 'He has thought it out, he thinks it out,
As he has been and is and, with the Queen
Of Fact, lies at his ease beside the sea.'"

One such scene, from 1953 —

Another perspective, from "The Osterman Weekend" (1983) —

Monday, August 4, 2014

Bunch vs. Bunch

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:00 pm

“This is a divorce case that was before us on an earlier occasion.”

Wild:

From the director of The Wild Bunch

Brady:

From The New York Times —

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Unplatonic Dialogue

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:12 pm

Dialogue from “The Osterman Weekend”—

01:57:22  “Why did he make us try to believe Omega existed?”
01:57:25    ….
01:57:26  “The existence of Omega has not been disproved.
01:57:28  Don’t you understand that?
01:57:31  Omega is as real  as we need it to be.”

See also Omega elsewhere in this journal.

Update of 9:15 PM ET —

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