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Thursday, June 21, 2018

Models of Being

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:30 am

A Buddhist view —

“Just fancy a scale model of Being
made out of string and cardboard.”

— Nanavira Thera, 1 October 1957,
on a model of Kummer’s Quartic Surface
mentioned by Eddington

A Christian view —

A formal view —

From a Log24 search for High Concept:

See also Galois Tesseract.

Dirac and Geometry (continued)

"Just fancy a scale model of Being 
made out of string and cardboard."

Nanavira Thera, 1 October 1957,
on a model of Kummer's Quartic Surface
mentioned by Eddington

"… a treatise on Kummer's quartic surface."

The "super-mathematician" Eddington did not see fit to mention
the title or the author of the treatise he discussed.

See Hudson + Kummer in this  journal.

See also posts tagged Dirac and Geometry.

Cavell’s Matrix

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:00 am

From an obituary for Stanley Cavell, Harvard philosopher
who reportedly died at 91 on Tuesday,  June 19:

The London Review of Books  weblog yesterday —

"Michael Wood reviewed [Cavell’s] 
Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow  in 2005:

'The ordinary slips away from us. If we ignore it, we lose it.
If we look at it closely, it becomes extraordinary, the way
words or names become strange if we keep staring at them.
The very notion turns into a baffling riddle.' "

See also, in this  journal, Tuesday morning's Ici vient M. Jordan  and
this  morning's previous post.

Update of 3:24 AM from my RSS feed —

Kummerhenge

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:19 am

See also the Omega Matrix in this  journal.

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