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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Art for Nihilists

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:45 pm

"I am serious about my study. I am a distinguished professor of mathematics at Brown University, though I have not for decades concerned myself with arithmetic, calculus, matrices, theorems, Hausdorff spaces, finite lattice representations, or anything else that involves values or numbers or representations of values or numbers or any such somethings, whether they have substance or not. I have spent my career in my little office on George Street in Providence contemplating and searching for nothing. I have not found it."

Everett, Percival. Dr. No: A Novel  (p. 6).
Graywolf Press. Kindle Edition, November 1, 2022.

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

“If It’s Tuesday…”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:14 pm

https://www.sadanduseless.com/adam-douglas-thompson/

Monday, February 5, 2024

Quantum Kernel  Incarnate

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:44 am

The "quantum kernel" of Koen Thas is a version of the incidence
structure — the Cremona-Richmond configuration — discussed
in the previous post, Doily  vs. Inscape .

That post's inscape  is, as noted there, an incarnation  of the
abstract incidence structure.  More generally, see incarnation
in this journal . . . In particular, from Michaelmas last year, 
Annals of Mathematical Theology.

A somewhat more sophisticated "incarnation" example
related to the "inscape" concept —

"The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation."

— T. S. Eliot in Four Quartets

See also Numberland  in this journal.

Sunday, February 4, 2024

Doily vs. Inscape: Same Abstract Structure, Different Models

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:24 pm

My own term "inscape" names a square  incarnation of what is also
known as the "Cremona-Richmond configuration," the "generalized
quadrangle of order (2, 2)," and the "doily." —

Friday, October 27, 2023

Blank Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:37 pm

The Ghent Altarpiece version —

A Taylor Swift version —

Monday, October 16, 2023

For Harlan Kane — The Heidegger Conundrum

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:18 am

Where's Y?

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Void Game

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:21 pm

Fans of the phrase "God-shaped hole" may have some opinions
about what should fill the inner 3×3 void of the above 5×5 array.

Update of 3:53 pm ET The White Paper —

The Source —

The Atlantic . . . Technology: 

The New AI Panic

Washington and Beijing have been locked in a conflict
over AI development. Now a new battle line is being drawn.

By Karen Hao. October 11, 2023, 9:13 AM ET

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

“If It’s Tuesday…” Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:33 pm

A nihilist altarpiece, from other posts tagged "Ghent Links" —

Some will prefer the "Better to light one candle" philosophy and . . .

Candle from Sense8, Season 1,  Episode 1: “Limbic Resonance” —

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Tuesday… Belgium.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

The inscape  in the previous post suggests a review of
work by the Belgian mathematician Koen Thas on what
might be called the "quantum tesseract theorem."

Babes in Tweeland

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:44 am

The New Yorker   yesterday on a film director —

"Lest viewers become even briefly comfortable with
the enchantments of his staging and of his actors’
performances, Anderson jolts them alert with
ever more audacious contrivances."

"As you can see, we've had our eye on you
for some time now, Mr. Anderson."

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

The Ghent Links

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:00 am

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:19 am

Art Space: The Missing Links

Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Tags:  — m759 @ 4:07 PM

Related material:  "Ducky" died,  Circle Zen,  Palmervision

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Returning to the Scene

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:43 am

From Log24 on August 29, 2023

From the above Foundation website —

This  journal on the above Foundation date — 13 July 2023 —

For an attempt of my own  at storytelling and
brand innovation, see posts now tagged

Figurate Geometry.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Elegance

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:34 pm

Art Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:07 pm

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Links

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:01 pm

Monday, August 28, 2023

The Missing Links

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:45 pm

For the missing links?

The links page is still available on the Internet Archive.

“Ach du lieber August” — John O’Hara, Hope of Heaven

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:11 am

"We stopped at the Trocadero and there was hardly anyone there.  We had Lanson 1926.  'Drink up, sweet.  You gotta go some.  How I love music.  Frère Jacques, Cuernavaca, ach du lieber August.  All languages.  A walking Berlitz.  Berlitz sounds like you with that champagne, my sweet, or how you're gonna sound.'"

— John O'Hara, Hope of Heaven, Chapter 11, 1938

"And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."

— Acts, Chapter 2, Verse 4

"Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the

PARIS,
1922-1939."

— James Joyce, conclusion of Finnegans Wake

Sunday, August 27, 2023

Shadow Work* for Alcoholics

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:23 pm

"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."

* See that phrase in this  journal.

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Midnight Wrinkle

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 am

See as well the life of a real  astrophysicist.

Update of 12:26 PM ET March 15:
Vide  other posts now tagged The Rosenhain Symmetry.

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Blackboard Jungle Continues.

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 6:19 pm

From the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle" —

From a trailer for the recent film version of A Wrinkle in Time

Detail of the phrase "quantum tesseract theorem":

From the 1962 book —

"There's something phoney
in the whole setup, Meg thought.
There is definitely something rotten
in the state of Camazotz."

Related mathematics from Koen Thas that some might call a
"quantum tesseract theorem" —

Some background —

Koen Thas, 'Unextendible Mututally Unbiased Bases' (2016)

See also posts tagged Dirac and Geometry. For more
background on finite  geometry, see a web page
at Thas's institution, Ghent University.

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