See as well . . .
April 11, 2020, was the dies natalis ,
in the Catholic sense,
of John Horton Conway.
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Annals of Experimental Theology . . .
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Monday, November 16, 2020
The Garland Modelling
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Monday, September 21, 2020
Zelig-Like?
“On their way to obscurity, the Simulmatics people
played minor parts in major events, appearing Zelig-like
at crucial moments of 1960s history.”
— James Gleick reviewing a new book by Jill Lepore
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Sunday, September 20, 2020
Epistemological Metaphor
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Friday, July 17, 2020
Theoretical as Well as Practical Value
See also The Lexicographic Octad Generator (LOG) (July 13, 2020)
and Octads and Geometry (April 23, 2020).
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Thursday, April 23, 2020
Octads and Geometry
See the web pages octad.group and octad.us.
Related geometry (not the 759 octads, but closely related to them) —
#/media/File:150614-PG-3-2-schoolgirls-arrangement.png)
The 4×6 rectangle of R. T. Curtis
illustrates the geometry of octads —
Curtis splits the 4×6 rectangle into three 4×2 "bricks" —
.
"In fact the construction enables us to describe the octads
in a very revealing manner. It shows that each octad,
other than Λ1, Λ2, Λ3, intersects at least one of these ' bricks' —
the 'heavy brick' – in just four points." . . . .
— R. T. Curtis (1976). "A new combinatorial approach to M24,"
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ,
79, pp 25-42.
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Dead Poet Joke
From the subtitles of the recent Kristen Stewart film “Underwater” —
427
00:30:26,144 –> 00:30:27,476
He’d always say
he had a new joke,
428
00:30:27,478 –> 00:30:29,445
and then he’d tell
the same stupid joke.
429
00:30:29,447 –> 00:30:32,785
I was… laughing at that joke.
430
00:30:34,053 –> 00:30:35,685
Yeah, what was it?
431
00:30:35,687 –> 00:30:38,654
What did the fish say when
it bumped into the brick wall?
April 11 was the dies natalis , in the Catholic sense, of John Horton Conway.
Related material: Other posts containing the phrase “brick wall.”
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
A Four-Color Epic
“A love story of epic, epic, epic proportion” — Kristen Stewart
See also the following letter to Knuth on four-color enthusiast
Spencer-Brown, as well as Tim Robinson on the same subject
in his book My Time in Space .
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Monday, April 13, 2020
Cubes and Axes
See also this journal on November 29, 2011 —The Flight from Ennui.
Related illustration from earlier in 2011 —
See also this journal on 20 Sept. 2011 — Relativity Problem Revisited —
as well as Congregated Light.
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Saturday, April 11, 2020
Dream
“All the schools of philosophy, from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment
encyclopedists, have dreamt of one day arriving at total and definitive
knowledge, a knowledge that encompasses the world. Indeed, the dream
lives on in the minds of some scientists today.”
— “Does Basic Research Have Meaning?” by Laurent Lafforgue —
“La recherche fondamentale a-t-elle un sens?
Quelques remarques d’un mathématicien catholique,”
Conférence donnée à l’Université de Notre-Dame,
aux États-Unis, le 20 mai 2011. Voici la version anglaise
de cette conférence (traduite par Hélène Wilkinson)
Et voici Larkin in Devs —
See too “musical brocade” in this journal.
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Monday, April 6, 2020
Friday, March 20, 2020
The Hollywood Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
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Saturday, March 14, 2020
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Architect
Suggested by the previous post: "Garland is an architect of complicated stories and actual spaces."
— Adam Rogers, 7 AM March 4th, 2020,
https://www.wired.com/story/
inside-devs-dreamy-silicon-valley-quantum-thriller/.
See also The Reality Blocks.
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Pythagorean Letter Meets Box of Chocolates
Friday, July 11, 2014Spiegel-Spiel des GeviertsFiled under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:00 PM See Cube Symbology.
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