Other entertainment news . . .
I look forward to a University Diaries "Burning Man" joke.
Friday, May 31, 2024
For a Multifarious Giant
From posts now tagged VVV Day . . .
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
GROTHENDIECK, A MULTIFARIOUS GIANT:
MATHEMATICS, LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, ORANGE (CA)
— BECKMAN HALL, ROOM 106 MAY 24TH-28TH, 2022
Chapman University was also the academic home of
the famed John Eastman.
As for Grothendieck, see that name in this journal. He was
the subject of a notable 2001 essay, "A Mad Day's Work,"
subtitled "The Evolution of Concepts of Space and Symmetry."
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Hex Ad: The Six-Pointed Star
For the star of the title, see "Levi-Strauss + Stella."
For a related hex, see an academic's weblog post from yesterday.
For an antidote to that hex, see a Wikipedia article . . .
Contrast the academic's phrase below with Wikipedia's "Pantocrator."
I prefer Yeats's (and Pantocrator's) Byzantium as a "soulful country."
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The Geometry of Hexads and Duads
Not unrelated: Six-set Geometry.
For some historical background for the first (1984)
result above, see the second (2013) result.
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Thursday, May 30, 2024
Religious Game
The 132 hexads in yesterday's "Small Shapes" post suggest a look at . . .
From a biography of Aviezri Fraenkel in the above
2001 issue of The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics —
"As a scientist, Aviezri is interested in,
studies, creates and is involved in mathematics.
As a religious man, Aviezri is interested in,
studies, creates and is involved in Jewish knowledge
and heritage.
In 1962, during his stay in Minneapolis, while thinking
and discussing with a friend how computers could help
to advance Judaic studies, Aviezri conceived a very
original idea based on information retrieval, which
eventually became the unique Responsa Project,
known and used by the entire Jewish world."
I do not know what I was doing on the above publication date —
May 18, 2000 — but the following note from earlier that year
seems relevant to more-recent remarks here.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2024
The Strong Law of Small Shapes*
Two examples:
The above note led to a letter from John H. Conway, which in turn
led to the following . . .
* The title refers to a well-known 1988 article by Richard K. Guy.
A shape from the date of Guy's reported death —
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