Wednesday, October 18, 2023
The Schwartz Is With Her.
See also, in this journal, Spaceballs.
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Saturday, October 14, 2023
“Sally go round the sun,
Sally go round the moon….”
Related material —
And then there is Goddard College . . .
"Seeing the potential in an idea is everything."
— https://www.goddard.edu/person/darrah-cloud/
" Cloud’s father once asked her why he was paying tuition
if she was working at Goddard for free. Her reply?
'I can’t tell you — all I know is I can drive an ambulance now.' ”
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Sally go round the moon….”
Sally go round the moon….”
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Monday, February 1, 2021
Friday, January 29, 2021
Space Laser Theory
From this journal on Nov. 17, 2018 —
See also another disastrous-mess commentary from Nov. 17, 2018.
Related weblog post —
Related theology — “Diamonds Are Forever” in this journal.
Related art — “Black Diamond.”
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Saturday, July 25, 2020
Nine Years Ago
See cyber space (as opposed to space ) in The Game (July 25, 2011).
Related material — The Ninth Year.
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The Upholding
“… to uphold the same ideal image of Space Age perfection.”
— Matt Schudel in The Washington Post , July 24, 2020, at 7:52 p.m. EDT
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
A Queen of Fact*
The American Mathematical Society has noted the May 12 death
of Nancy D. Anderson. According to an unsigned May 14 obituary
in the Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, News-Gazette , Anderson was
“at the time of her retirement in 2000… one of the most respected
mathematics librarians of her generation.”
Related material (click to enlarge) —
* Phrase suggested by a Wallace Stevens poem. See May 12.
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Saturday, May 2, 2020
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
The Screwtape Bishop
“Patrick Joseph McKinney is the 10th Bishop of Nottingham.
His appointment was announced on 14 May 2015 by Pope Francis.”
— Wikipedia
Related material from this journal on the date the Pope
appointed the Screwtape Bishop —
Obit et Orbit continues.
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Sunday, February 9, 2020
Hors d’Oeuvre
From the May Day 2016 link above, in "Sunday Appetizer from 1984" —
The 2015 German edition of Beautiful Mathematics , a 2011 Mathematical Association of America (MAA) book, was retitled Mathematische Appetithäppchen — Mathematical Appetizers . The German edition mentions the author's source, omitted in the original American edition, for his section 5.17, "A Group of Operations" (in German, 5.17, "Eine Gruppe von Operationen")—
That source was a document that has been on the Web since 2002. The document was submitted to the MAA in 1984 but was rejected. The German edition omits the document's title, and describes it as merely a source for "further information on this subject area." |
From the Gap Dance link above, in "Reading for Devil's Night" —
“Das Nichts nichtet.” — Martin Heidegger.
And "Appropriation Appropriates."
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Friday, February 7, 2020
Correspondences
The 15 2-subsets of a 6-set correspond to the 15 points of PG(3,2).
(Cullinane, 1986*)
The 35 3-subsets of a 7-set correspond to the 35 lines of PG(3,2).
(Conwell, 1910)
The 56 3-subsets of an 8-set correspond to the 56 spreads of PG(3,2).
(Seidel, 1970)
Each correspondence above may have been investigated earlier than
indicated by the above dates , which are the earliest I know of.
See also Correspondences in this journal.
* The above 1986 construction of PG(3,2) from a 6-set also appeared
in the work of other authors in 1994 and 2002 . . .
-
Gonzalez-Dorrego, Maria R. (Maria del Rosario),
(16,6) Configurations and Geometry of Kummer Surfaces in P3.
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1994. -
Dolgachev, Igor, and Keum, JongHae,
"Birational Automorphisms of Quartic Hessian Surfaces."
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 354 (2002), 3031-3057.
Addendum at 5:09 PM suggested by an obituary today for Stephen Joyce:
See as well the word correspondences in
"James Joyce and the Hermetic Tradition," by William York Tindall
(Journal of the History of Ideas , Jan. 1954).
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Thursday, January 23, 2020
Columbus Day 2004
A followup to the previous post:
Related material — A web page on chess cached for use in a
Log24 post on the date of the above post, Columbus Day, 2004.
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Obit et Orbit Continues.
In memoriam —
"Doug co-founded the Secure Machine Learning research group
in 2004, focused on defining how adversaries can influence and
manipulate machine learning algorithms and how to make them
robust against such attacks, culminating in a recently published
book, Adversarial Machine Learning , with a colleague and two
former students."
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Friday, January 17, 2020
Design Theory
On a recently deceased professor emeritus of architecture
at Princeton —
“… Maxwell ‘established the school as a principal
center of design research, history and theory.’ ”
“This is not the Maxwell you’re looking for.”
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Orbits and Stabilizers
Sure it does.
See as well, in yesterday's Cornfield post, Plato on
tolerating "the presence of untruth." That not one
of the 29 (as of today) comments on Gowers's post
mentions the above presence of untruth is itself a
comment on the culture of the Academy.
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Thursday, January 16, 2020
NowHere
The title is suggested by the word "NowHere" on a map
that I encountered in a personal weblog post tonight.
Related Google search —
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The Dreaming Jewels of J. R. R. Tolkien
See also Silmarils and, in this journal, The Dreaming Jewels .
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A Very Stable Cornfield
"We show deeper implications of this simple principle,
by establishing a connection with the interplay
of orbits and stabilizers of group actions."
See also Dark Fields , a post featuring a work of philosophy
translated, reportedly, by one "Francis MacDonald Cornfield" —
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Monday, December 23, 2019
Orbit
"December 22, the birth anniversary of India’s famed mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan, is celebrated as National Mathematics Day."
— Indian Express yesterday
"Orbits and stabilizers are closely related." — Wikipedia
Symmetries by Plato and R. T. Curtis —
In the above, 322,560 is the order
of the octad stabilizer group .
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Saturday, December 13, 2003
Saturday December 13, 2003
We Are the Key:
The Shining of December 13
For James and Lucia Joyce
In the Orbit of Genius —
TIME, Dec. 1, 2003:
"Once, when her mother asked if Joyce should visit her in the sanatorium, Lucia said, 'Tell him I am a crossword puzzle, and if he does not mind seeing a crossword puzzle, he is to come out.' "
Compare and contrast
with Finnegans Wake
From Roger Zelazny's Eye of Cat:
"A massive, jaguarlike form with a single, gleaming eye landed on the vehicle's hood forward and to the front. It was visible for but an instant, and then it sprang away. The car tipped, its air cushion awry, and it was already turning onto its side before he left the trail. He fought with the wheel and the attitude control, already knowing that it was too late. There came a strong shock accompanied by a crunching noise, and he felt himself thrown forward.
DEADLY, DEADLY, DEADLY…
Kaleidoscope turning… Shifting pattern within unalterable structure… Was it a mistake? There is pain with the power… Time's friction at the edges… Center loosens, forms again elsewhere… Unalterable? But – Turn outward. Here songs of self erode the will till actions lie stillborn upon night's counterpane. But – Again the movement… Will it hold beyond a catch of moment? To fragment… Not kaleidoscope. No center. But again… To form it will. To will it form. Structure… Pain… Deadly, deadly… And lovely. Like a sleek, small dog… A plastic statue… The notes of an organ, the first slug of gin on an empty stomach… We settle again, farther than ever before… Center. The light!… It is difficult being a god. The pain. The beauty. The terror of selfless – Act! Yes. Center, center, center… Here? Deadly…
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We are the key."
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