Sunday, June 22, 2025
For Nicole:
Mobius Dick
Mobius Dick
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
Friday, March 14, 2025
“Mobius, Stephanie . . . Stephanie, Mobius.*”
From the Graf Dies Mortis posts —
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http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Pearl+Jam . . . 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
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Monday, September 25, 2023
Color Field* Art
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
Related narrative —
This post was suggested by the Möbius Dick air date —
August 4, 2011 — in this journal.
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Mathematics and Narrative . . .
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
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Annals of Scientific Theology
"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
"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 :
Related material for Jungians who enjoy synchronicity —
The Log24 posts from the date of the Gintis review — April 10, 2012.
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Sources
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
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
The incidences of points and planes in the
Möbius 84 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
Yesterday's post suggests a review of the following —
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Andries Brouwer, preprint, 1982:
"The Witt designs, Golay codes and Mathieu groups" 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
the design of the points and affine hyperplanes in AG(4, 2), Proof…. … (iv) We have AG(4, 2).
(Proof: invoke your favorite characterization of AG(4, 2) An explicit construction of the vector space is also easy….) |
Related material: Posts tagged Priority.
Monday, March 23, 2015
Gallucci’s Möbius Configuration
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
In memory of Theodore Sturgeon, Leonard Nimoy,
and William Thomas McKinley —
From the Boston Modern Orchestra Project today :
"In a good way"
Friday, March 4, 2011
Ageometretos Medeis Eisito*
Your mission, should you choose to accept it…
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.
























