Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Turning to the News . . .
Monday, July 5, 2021
For Stonehearst Asylum
Robert A. Wilson on symmetries of the ninefold square —
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"All of these ideas have shown promise at some time or other, and some are still under active investigation. But my conclusion after all this work is that the part of algebra that shows the most promise for genuinely useful applications to fundamental physics is the representation theory, real, complex, integral and modular, of the group GL(2, 3). There is, of course, no guarantee that a viable theory can be built on this foundation. But it appears to be the only part of algebra that both has a reasonable chance of success and has not already been exhaustively explored in the physics literature. It is therefore worth serious consideration." — "Potential applications of modular representation theory to quantum mechanics," arXiv, May 28, 2021, revised June 7, 2021. |
See as well GL(2,3) in this journal .
Some may consider more relevant the remarks of a different Robert A. Wilson —
Do Hillbillies Dream of Dinner Parties?
The title was suggested by a New Yorker photo caption
about Yale on June 19, 2021 —
"Amy Chua, a celebrity professor at the top-ranked
law school in the country, is at the center of a
campus-wide fracas known as 'Dinner Party-gate.' "
Other recent Yale material —
Remarks related to New Haven and geometry —
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Sunday, July 4, 2021
Raiders of the Lost . . .
See as well a search in this journal for Feng Shui.
Saturday, July 3, 2021
Here, There, and Chicago
The above phrase "the intersection of storytelling and visual arts"
suggests a review . . .
Storytelling —
Visual arts —
"This pattern is a square divided into nine equal parts.
It has been called the 'Holy Field' division and
was used throughout Chinese history for many
different purposes, most of which were connected
with things religious, political, or philosophical."
– The Magic Square: Cities in Ancient China,
by Alfred Schinz, Edition Axel Menges, 1996, p. 71
A Midrash for Michener —
For a connection of the above "Holy Field"
with pure mathematics, see Coxeter's Aleph.
