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 —
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
The Schwartz Meme
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
The Schwartz Notes
A Google search today for material on the Web that puts the diamond theorem
in context yielded a satisfyingly complete list. (See the first 21 results.)
(Customization based on signed-out search activity was disabled.)
The same search limited to results from only the past month yielded,
in addition, the following—
This turns out to be a document by one Richard Evan Schwartz,
Chancellor’s Professor of Mathematics at Brown University.
Pages 12-14 of the document, which is untitled, undated, and
unsigned, discuss the finite-geometry background of the R.T.
Curtis Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) . As today’s earlier search indicates,
this is closely related to the diamond theorem. The section relating
the geometry to the MOG is titled “The MOG and Projective Space.”
It does not mention my own work.
See Schwartz’s page 12, page 13, and page 14.
Compare to the web pages from today’s earlier search.
There are no references at the end of the Schwartz document,
but there is this at the beginning—
These are some notes on error correcting codes. Two good sources for
this material are
• From Error Correcting Codes through Sphere Packings to Simple Groups ,
by Thomas Thompson.
• Sphere Packings, Lattices, and Simple Groups by J. H. Conway and N.
Sloane
Planet Math (on the internet) also some information.
It seems clear that these inadequate remarks by Schwartz on his sources
can and should be expanded.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Hurly Burly: Code for Something
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https://subslikescript.com/movie/Hurlyburly-119336 — So what do you want to do?
You want to go to your place, You want to go to a sex motel? They got waterbeds.
They got porn I'm hungry. You want a Jack-in-the-Box? I love Jack-in-the-Box. Is that code for something? What? What? Is what code for what? I don't know. I don't know the goddamn code! |
The Didion Logo:
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
See as well a discussion of
Meta's new (2023) Threads logo,
illustrated below.
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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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Saturday, January 13, 2024
Looking Carefully
From Thursday, January 11 —
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
Or at Jenna Ortega in a Valentino dress —
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Friday, August 21, 2020
Logic and Efficiency
From remarks in this journal on Aug. 7 —
“You’ve got to pick up every stitch.” — Donovan
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
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Friday, August 7, 2020
Primary Color
From a Log24 search for Schwartz + “The Sun” —
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
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Monday, December 2, 2019
Gray Space
See as well a search for Gray Space in this journal.
Related material: The Schwartz Omega .
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
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Friday, December 14, 2018
Small Space Odyssey
References in recent posts to physical space and
to mathematical space suggest a comparison.
Physical space is well known, at least in the world
of mass entertainment.
Mathematical space, such as the 12-dimensional
finite space of the Golay code, is less well known.
A figure from each space —
The source of the Conway-Sloane brick —
Quote from a mathematics writer —
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code is like staring into the sun.”
The former practice yields reflections like those of Conway and Sloane.
The latter practice is not recommended.
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Monday, May 28, 2018
Skewers
A piece co-written by Ivanov, the author noted in the previous post, was cited
in my "Geometry of the 4×4 Square."
Also cited there — A paper by Pasini and Van Maldeghem that mentions
the Klein quadric.
Those sources suggested a search —
The link is to some geometry recently described by Tabachnikov
that seems rather elegant:
For another, more direct, connection to the geometry of the 4×4 square,
see Richard Evan Schwartz in this journal.
This same Schwartz appears also in the above Tabachnikov paper:
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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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Sunday, March 5, 2017
The Omega Matrix
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Monday, November 28, 2016
Interpenetration
Or: A Candle for Sunrise
Commentary —
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code is like staring into the sun.”
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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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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, March 13, 2014
Story
A Presbyterian meditation —
A scene from the film of the above book —
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code is like staring into the sun.”
For more of the story, see Golay in this journal.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Piracy Project
Recent piracy of my work as part of a London art project suggests the following.
From http://www.trussel.com/rls/rlsgb1.htm
The 2011 Long John Silver Award for academic piracy
goes to ….
Hermann Weyl, for the remark on objectivity and invariance
in his classic work Symmetry that skillfully pirated
the much earlier work of philosopher Ernst Cassirer.
And the 2011 Parrot Award for adept academic idea-lifting
goes to …
Richard Evan Schwartz of Brown University, for his
use, without citation, of Cullinane’s work illustrating
Weyl’s “relativity problem” in a finite-geometry context.
For further details, click on the above names.
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