From the above: "electronically published on October 6. 2023."
See as well that date in other Log24 posts tagged The Prize Shining.
A co-author of the book reviewed has appeared here previously.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Kindergarten Report on Fröbel’s Third Gift:
“Behaves well under group action.”
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“Behaves well under group action.”
“Behaves well under group action.”
Monday, August 1, 2022
Review
From Log24 posts tagged Art Space —
From a paper on Kummer varieties,
arXiv:1208.1229v3 [math.AG] 12 Jun 2013,
“The Universal Kummer Threefold,” by
Qingchun Ren, Steven V Sam, Gus Schrader,
and Bernd Sturmfels —
Two such considerations —
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Friday, August 20, 2021
Space Note
"Consider the six-dimensional vector space ( 𝔽2 )6
over the two-element field 𝔽2 ."
— Page 23 of "The Universal Kummer Threefold,"
arXiv:1208.1229v3, 12 June 2013, by Qingchun Ren,
Steven V. Sam, Gus Schrader, and Bernd Sturmfels.
An illustration of that space from 1981 —
The above recollection of the Kummer Threefold remark was suggested by
recent posts now tagged Smallfield . . .
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"Third Man – an elderly American railway bum, "Art to which I fix my celebrated signature." — "Third Man" in Victor Snaith's play "Changing Stations"
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If we read the above "art" as a scythe blade to which the "signature" —
Snaith ("the crooked handle or shaft of a scythe") — is attached,
an image of the late art critic Robert Hughes comes to mind:
That image of Hughes appeared here in a post of June 17, 2015 —
"Slow Art, Continued" — that also referenced the Kummer Threefold
paper above.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017
The Prize
Bernd Sturmfels to Receive 2018
George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics
— American Mathematical Society on
Monday, November 20th, 2017
See also Sturmfels and Birkhoff + Geometry in this journal.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Art Space, Continued
"And as the characters in the meme twitch into the abyss
that is the sky, this meme will disappear into whatever
internet abyss swallowed MySpace."
—Staff writer Kamila Czachorowski, Harvard Crimson today
From Log24 posts tagged Art Space —
From a recent paper on Kummer varieties,
arXiv:1208.1229v3 [math.AG] 12 Jun 2013,
“The Universal Kummer Threefold,” by
Qingchun Ren, Steven V Sam, Gus Schrader, and
Bernd Sturmfels —
Two such considerations —
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Rubik’s Deathtrap
The previous post suggests a search in this journal
for "Deathtrap."
"Rubik’s Cube® used by permission
Rubik’s Brand Ltd. www.rubiks.com."
— Bernd Sturmfels, June-July 2016 Notices
of the American Mathematical Society ,
Volume 63, Number 6, page 605
"Tenser, said the Tensor …." — The Demolished Man
Max von Sydow in Branded (2012)
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Expanding the Spielraum …
"My AMS invited address at the SIAM Annual Meeting July 11–15
in Boston discusses the extension of eigenvectors and singular
vectors from matrices to higher order tensors."
— Bernd Sturmfels in the June-July 2016 AMS Notices
See also Sturmfels in this journal — for instance, in
"Expanding the Spielraum," a post of Feb. 3, 2015 —
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Expanding the Spielraum
A short poem by several authors:
"The role of
the 16 singular points
on the Kummer surface
is now played by
the 64 singular points
on the Kummer threefold."
— From Remark 2.4 on page 9 of
"The Universal Kummer Threefold,"
by Qingchun Ren, Steven V Sam,
Gus Schrader, and Bernd Sturmfels,
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1229v3,
August 6, 2012 — June 12, 2013.
See also "Expanded Field" in this journal.
Illustration from "Sunday School," July 20, 2014.
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Sunday, March 9, 2014
Hesse’s Table
From “Quartic Curves and Their Bitangents,” by
Daniel Plaumann, Bernd Sturmfels, and Cynthia Vinzant,
arXiv:1008.4104v2 [math.AG] 10 Jan 2011 —
The table mentioned (from 1855) is…
Exercise: Discuss the relationship, if any, to
the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis.
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Friday, March 7, 2014
Kummer Varieties
The Dream of the Expanded Field continues…
From Klein's 1893 Lectures on Mathematics —
"The varieties introduced by Wirtinger may be called Kummer varieties…."
— E. Spanier, 1956
From this journal on March 10, 2013 —
From a recent paper on Kummer varieties,
arXiv:1208.1229v3 [math.AG] 12 Jun 2013,
"The Universal Kummer Threefold," by
Qingchun Ren, Steven V Sam, Gus Schrader, and Bernd Sturmfels —
Two such considerations —
Update of 10 PM ET March 7, 2014 —
The following slides by one of the "Kummer Threefold" authors give
some background related to the above 64-point vector space and
to the Weyl group of type E7, W (E7):
The Cayley reference is to "Algorithm for the characteristics of the
triple ϑ-functions," Journal für die Reine und Angewandte
Mathematik 87 (1879): 165-169. <http://eudml.org/doc/148412>.
To read this in the context of Cayley's other work, see pp. 441-445
of Volume 10 of his Collected Mathematical Papers .
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