The death date of Princeton mathematician William Browder
has now been established as February 4, 2025.
That date in this journal . . . See posts tagged Clercs.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Browder Death Date
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
The Day of the Clercs
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Diagrams
"The most powerful diagram in mathematics" —
The YouTube lecturer is not referring to the Fano plane diagram cited
in the AI Overview below, but to a much more sophisticated figure,
the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) of R. T. Curtis.
Some context —
A rearrangement of the Miracle Octad Generator —
The diagram below may be less powerful , but it illustrates a result that,
although less miraculous , is perhaps more historically significant —
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Raiders of the Lost Aleph
See Coxeter + Aleph in this journal.
Epigraph to "The Aleph," a 1945 story by Borges:
"O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell,
and count myself a King of infinite space…"
– Hamlet, II, 2
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Snakes on a Plane
Detail from the video in the previous post:
For other permutations of points in the
order-3 affine plane—
See Quaternions in an Affine Galois Plane
and Group Actions, 1984-2009.
See, too, the Mathematics and Narrative post
from April 28, 2013, and last night's
For Indiana Spielberg.
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