For a correction of Quine's attribution to Plato,
vide The Appearances (Log24, Sept. 20, 2009).
Related literary remarks on New York water . . .
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Saving the Appearances: Plato’s Underview
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Monday, July 14, 2025
Rosenhain and Göpel in 1950
See also Rosenhain and Göpel in this journal.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Plan 9 from Toronto
This 1950 use of Galois coordinates on a grid
foreshadows their later use by Cullinane to construct
the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis and to
illustrate, as below, point-line duality in the Fano plane.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Epigraphy*
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Friday, August 2, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The Stevens Title
Things of August*
Related narratives:
Related mathematics:
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Friday, January 7, 2011
Coxeter and the Aleph
In a nutshell —
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
The story in book form, 1949
A 2006 biography of geometer H.S.M. Coxeter:
The Aleph (implicit in a 1950 article by Coxeter):
The details:
Related material: Group Actions, 1984-2009.
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