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Sunday, June 22, 2025

For Nicole:
Mobius Dick

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:55 am

As does Season 2 of "Nine Perfect Strangers."

Monday, March 24, 2025

A Combinatorial Configuration

Related art —

From "Self-Dual Configurations and Regular Graphs" by H. S. M. Coxeter, 
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
, Vol. 56 (1950), pp. 413-455

For a related combinatorial configuration, take Oxbury's  "16 lines"
to be the the 16 dots above  and take the "8 points of intersection"
to be the four squares

234, 1234, 124, 24

23, 123, 12, 2

3, 13, 1, 0

34, 134, 14, 4

along with the four diamonds

234, 23, 3, 34

1234, 123, 13, 134

124, 12, 1, 14

24, 2, 0, 4.

Then each "line" is on two "points" and each "point" on
four "lines."

Note that these eight "points" — the four squares and the four diamonds
of Coxeter's figure — form the rows and columns of the following matrix:

 234  1234  124  24
 23   123   12   2 
 3    13   1    0  
 34   134  14   4

Related reading:  Points with Parts .

Saturday, March 15, 2025

The Faustus Logo

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Faustus cover, Thomas Mann

See as well a Log24 search for Forum + Einstein.

Friday, March 14, 2025

“Mobius, Stephanie . . . Stephanie, Mobius.*”

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:38 pm

From the Graf Dies Mortis  posts

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Pearl+Jam . . .

Pearl Jam 'Backspacer' album released Sept. 20, 2009

    In other news from the Northwest . . . Stephanie Dick.

A flashback from today's previous post

* For the Mobius of the title, see a 2004 novel by Andrew Crumey.

Graf Dies Mortis

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:23 pm

See posts so tagged.

Update of 12:51 PM EDT March 14, 2025 . . .

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

“Watch the trailer.”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:14 am

Monday, September 25, 2023

Color Field* Art

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:15 am

This  journal on the above color-field date . . .

* I prefer the art-history term "color field"
to the pandering term "psychedelic."

Friday, May 5, 2023

Inside Story

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:23 am

The Bermuda Octahedron


Related narrative —

This post was suggested by the Möbius Dick  air date
August 4, 2011 — in this  journal.

A Bigger Boat

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:17 am

Earlier in this journal  . . .


 

". . . A  bigger  boat."

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Mathematics and Narrative . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:47 pm

Continues.
 

Mathematics:

From Log24 "Pyramid Game" posts —

The letter labels, but not the tetrahedron, are from Whitehead’s
The Axioms of Projective Geometry  (Cambridge U. Press, 1906), page 13.
 

Narrative:

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The Mobius Chapel

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From a Swedish singer's IG on Feb. 14, 2023 —

Related woo-woo literature —

See also . . .

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Annals of Scientific Theology

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:11 pm

"Think of it as a cybernetic version of prayer…."

— Dennis Overbye in today's online New York Times ,

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/science/
cosmology-universe-programming.html
.

Related remarks:  The Log24 tag Geheimnis der Einheit, and . . .

Related art — "The Difference," a Log24 post of Epiphany 2010.

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Saturday Reviews

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:26 am

"Might be a nice 20 page essay, but a bomb of a book"
— Herbert Gintis on Taleb's Black Swan , review dated April 10, 2012.

This remark might also be applied to Crumey's Mobius Dick :

A physicist and Doktor Faustus

Related material for Jungians who enjoy synchronicity —

The Log24 posts from the date of the Gintis review — April 10, 2012.

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Brightness at Noon

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:57 am

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Sources

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 9:00 am

From a Google image search yesterday

Sources (left to right, top to bottom) —

Math Guy (July 16, 2014)
The Galois Tesseract (Sept. 1, 2011)
The Full Force of Roman Law (April 21, 2014)
A Great Moonshine (Sept. 25, 2015)
A Point of Identity (August 8, 2016)
Pascal via Curtis (April 6, 2013)
Correspondences (August 6, 2011)
Symmetric Generation (Sept. 21, 2011)

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Celebrity Hurricane

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:29 pm

The New York Times  today on the late LA theater director
Gordon Davidson —

" When Mr. Davidson announced his retirement in 2002,
Mr. Eustis summed up his achievement succinctly.
Mr. Davidson, he told The Los Angeles Times ,
'has managed to make serious theater in the eye of
the celebrity hurricane.' " — William Grimes

From a Google image search today for "Mobius 8 4" Configuration

See also this morning's Square Ice and an image from yesterday's
Recursion Revisited

Thursday, March 26, 2015

The Möbius Hypercube

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 12:31 am

The incidences of points and planes in the
Möbius 8 configuration (8 points and 8 planes,
with 4 points on each plane and 4 planes on each point),
were described by Coxeter in a 1950 paper.* 
A table from Monday's post summarizes Coxeter's
remarks, which described the incidences in
spatial terms, with the points and planes as the vertices
and face-planes of two mutually inscribed tetrahedra —

Monday's post, "Gallucci's Möbius Configuration,"
may not be completely intelligible unless one notices
that Coxeter has drawn some of the intersections in his 
Fig. 24, a schematic representation of the point-plane
incidences, as dotless, and some as hollow dots.  The figure,
"Gallucci's version of Möbius's 84," is shown below.
The hollow dots, representing the 8 points  (as opposed
to the 8 planes ) of the configuration, are highlighted in blue.

Here a plane  (represented by a dotless intersection) contains
the four points  that are represented in the square array as lying
in the same row or same column as the plane. 

The above Möbius incidences appear also much earlier in
Coxeter's paper, in figures 6 and 5, where they are shown
as describing the structure of a hypercube. 

In figures 6 and 5, the dotless intersections representing
planes have been replaced by solid dots. The hollow dots
have again been highlighted in blue.

Figures 6 and 5 demonstrate the fact that adjacency in the set of
16 vertices of a hypercube is isomorphic to adjacency in the set
of 16 subsquares of a square 4×4 array, provided that opposite
sides of the array are identified, as in Fig. 6. The digits in 
Coxeter's labels above may be viewed as naming the positions 
of the 1's in (0,1) vectors (x4, x3, x2, x1) over the two-element
Galois field.  In that context, the 4×4 array may be called, instead
of a Möbius hypercube , a Galois tesseract .

*  "Self-Dual Configurations and Regular Graphs," 
    Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society,
    Vol. 56 (1950), pp. 413-455

The subscripts' usual 1-2-3-4 order is reversed as a reminder
    that such a vector may be viewed as labeling a binary number 
    from 0  through 15, or alternately as labeling a polynomial in
    the 16-element Galois field GF(24).  See the Log24 post
     Vector Addition in a Finite Field (Jan. 5, 2013).

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Brouwer on the Galois Tesseract

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

Yesterday's post suggests a review of the following —

Andries Brouwer, preprint, 1982:

"The Witt designs, Golay codes and Mathieu groups"
(unpublished as of 2013)

Pages 8-9:

Substructures of S(5, 8, 24)

An octad is a block of S(5, 8, 24).

Theorem 5.1

Let B0 be a fixed octad. The 30 octads disjoint from B0
form a self-complementary 3-(16,8,3) design, namely 

the design of the points and affine hyperplanes in AG(4, 2),
the 4-dimensional affine space over F2.

Proof….

… (iv) We have AG(4, 2).

(Proof: invoke your favorite characterization of AG(4, 2) 
or PG(3, 2), say 
Dembowski-Wagner or Veblen & Young. 

An explicit construction of the vector space is also easy….)

Related material:  Posts tagged Priority.

Monday, March 23, 2015

Gallucci’s Möbius Configuration

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:05 pm

From H. S. M. Coxeter's 1950 paper
"Self-Dual Configurations and Regular Graphs," 
a 4×4 array and a more perspicuous rearrangement—

(Click image to enlarge.) 

The above rearrangement brings Coxeter's remarks into accord
with the webpage The Galois Tesseract.

Update of Thursday, March 26, 2015 —

For an explanation of Coxeter's Fig. 24, see Thursday's later
post titled "The Möbius Hypercube."

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Logical Loop

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

In memory of Theodore SturgeonLeonard Nimoy,
and William Thomas McKinley —

From the Boston Modern Orchestra Project today :

"In a good way"

Or not.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Ageometretos Medeis Eisito*

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 7:11 pm

Your mission, should you choose to accept it…

IMAGE- Future Bead Game Master Joseph Knecht's mission to a Benedictine monastery

See also “Mapping Music” from Harvard Magazine , Jan.-Feb. 2007—

“Life inside an orbifold is a non-Euclidean world”

— as well as the cover story “The Shape of Music” from Princeton Alumni Weekly ,
Feb. 9, 2011, and “Bead Game” + music in this  journal (click, then scroll down).
Those impressed by the phrase “non-Euclidean” may also enjoy
Non-Euclidean Blocks and Pilate Goes to Kindergarten.

The “Bead Game” + music search above includes, notably, a passage describing a
sort of non-Euclidean abacus in the classic 1943 story “Mimsy Were the Borogoves.”
For a visually related experience, see the video “Chord Geometries Demo: Chopin
on a Mobius Strip” at a music.princeton.edu web page.

* Motto of the American Mathematical Society, said to be also the motto of Plato’s Academy.

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